It's a historical thing, up to the 19th century the English hated the French. Then in the 20th century the English started… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century. — Jerry Coleman Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century, and I'm really fascinated by that… — Juliet Landau Copy Share Image
Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical… — Philo Copy Share Image
In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anything, and they are consistency, consistency, consistency.They are… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away,… — Clive James Copy Share Image
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century. — James A. Belasco Copy Share Image
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
I chose cricket as my career when I was 15 or 16 when I scored a century for Maharashtra. — Smriti Mandhana Copy Share Image
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
When President [Barack] Obama was sworn in on the steps of Capitol, he asked for swift, bold action now for jobs and… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
What is the spirituality we need for the 21st century? We face a choice: to retire from this fray into some marshmallow… — Joan D. Chittister 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
Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Although the stories are very present in my book, and very present in my mind, what I was most interested in was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it? — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For centuries, humans have said to horses, 'You do what I tell you or I'll hurt you.' Humans still say that to… — Monty Roberts Copy Share Image