We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a… — Andre Michel Lwoff Copy Share Image
The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following… — Nora Ephron 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
I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There's this Indian fellow who worked out a cycle like the idea of stone-age, bronze-age, only he did it on an Indian… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
The E.U. is a backward-looking project based on an economic model of the 20th century. — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
