Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception. — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
There is no need to live in a tent in Britain in the 21st century. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st. — David S. Rose Copy Share Image
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were… — Peter Warlock Copy Share Image
Queen Elizabeth of England is the real fashion icon of the century. And she has a sense of humor. — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we… — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
There is absolutely nothing democratic about the "global arrangement" through which the West has been ruling over the rest of the world… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, excellent communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were… — Mary Cunningham Agee Copy Share Image
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century,… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
On a transparency front, I would say that I certainly dream of a world in which our local, state, and national and… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Therefore, I do not think we should go only 60 years back but should look deeper, centuries back. Maybe this will give… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
“Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
In the previous days and times, we've been involved, not exclusively, but largely, in the process of individual survival: How do I… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
So many people have that kind of attitude and approach to learning that it gives me great hope for the world. I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“You should dream more. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century, — Bruno Le Maire Copy Share Image
Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century. — Lord Mountbatten Copy Share Image
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one. — Jon Krakauer 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
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image