Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
If the 21st Century is the era of knowledge and of knowledgeable human-force, then, to extol this force, Gujarat must form a… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work,… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the… — Raymond S. Moore Copy Share Image
A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Millennium Trails will be very tangible gifts to the future. We will walk on them and hike on them and bike on… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates. — Clive Ponting Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Do we really want to base our 21st-century policy on what the colonialist preferred at a certain time in history, not at… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I think there was a moment in the middle part of the century into the 60s, 70s when at least elite journalism… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb… — Mortimer Collins Copy Share Image
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world.… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Lee Marvin was there at the same time, and I knew obviously it was his movie [Emperor Of The North], and Ernie… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My life in Greece influenced what I am. My father was in the left because he was against the king and his… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image