For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a… — Todd Tiahrt Copy Share Image
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century — John Bruton Copy Share Image
Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet it is… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural… — John Berger Copy Share Image
After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Most of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that kind… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has… — Peter Warlock Copy Share Image
We are faced with having to learn again about interdependency and the need for rootedness after several centuries of having systematically-and proudly-dismantled… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Much of the conventional analysis of India's stature in the world relies on the all-too-familiar economic assumptions. But we are famously a… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to. — Lindsay Pearce Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then,… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers. — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
