I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Once a century, all of a certain kind of bamboo flower on the same day. Whether they are in Malaysia or in… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
was revolution much more than one fast kick forward in the long process called evolution? We condemened the 'cost' of revolution; but… — Ella Winter Copy Share Image
Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality. Buildings… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States.… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux… — Eugene Atget 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
We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military… — James L. Jones Copy Share Image
I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
Home-based businesses are one of the fastest-growing segments in our economy, and that trend will only continue, as the age of the… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image