Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. — Dave Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in how people in the 19th century travelled to Greece. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label. — George Meany Copy Share Image
Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century. — Peter Barrett Copy Share Image
“In other words, by 2100, the entire planet could look like Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, at least in… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of… — William Gibson 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
The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power;… — Alex Carey Copy Share Image
With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Here is Christianity. Whence came it? It is a force in the world, a prodigious force. It has revolutionized society. It has… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Man is unable to accurately predict events which are but twenty-four hours distant; only the Divine Mind could have foretold the future,… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education.… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail,… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Don't assume that the way that one searches and researches is the same from one era to another - it isn't. In… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won.… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism. — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
