Century Quotes · Page 15

“...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

— John Fowles

What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power.

— Frederick Lenz

Let's forget a little about the 19th century and start looking at the 21st century.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

— Ricky Jay

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

There shouldn't be a separation of any religion in any way. Unfortunately, through the centuries there have been problems from the "My…

— Kevin Sorbo

The 21st century can and must be an American century. It began with terror, war, and economic calamity. It is our duty…

— Mitt Romney

We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make…

— Dalai Lama

One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures -…

— Robert Hass

The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the…

— Richard Conniff

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of…

— Erica Jong

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil…

— Jack Kemp

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

— Terence McKenna

There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system…

— George Friedman

Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is…

— Brian L. Silver

It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not…

— Frederick Rolfe

I think there’s a really selfish part of me that wishes I had the tools that I had today in the context…

— Khoi Vinh

Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of…

— Hugh Kingsmill

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one…

— Dee Hock

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity.…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have…

— Hannes Alfven

The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion,…

— Michel Foucault

I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing…

— Richard Dawkins

The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn -…

— Daniel Fried

A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead…

— Harris L Coulter

The United States ... has been proud of its association with the State of Israel. We shall continue to stand with Israel.…

— Gerald R. Ford

Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible…

— Michael Ignatieff

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe…

— Primo Levi

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

— Carlos Fuentes

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

— Edward Witten

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

— Maya Angelou

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

— Alberto Moravia

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

— Ken Follett

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

— Steven Rattner

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

— Ben Shapiro

I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

— David Plotz