[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised… — Norman Lockyer Copy Share Image
What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past.… — Agnes Mary Clerke Copy Share Image
Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure-in other words, allow yourself to live the way… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way… — Lara Stone Copy Share Image
The world is divided into 2 streams - the one of 'Vistarvaad' & and the other of 'Vikasvaad'. Vikasvaad is indispensable in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
I don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
We’re going to foment our own revolution. So I say to the women out there in America, let’s keep this fight going!… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
Christianity began with 120 in the Upper Room, within three centuries it had become the predominant religion of the Roman Empire. What… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum… — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Studies of the people named and described in earliest Christian texts show that, right from the earliest years, they included craftsmen, merchants,… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The Obama campaign is one of the greatest examples of what is possible in the brave new world of 21st Century marketing.… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,… — Florence King Copy Share Image
It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron;… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image