When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland… — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology. — Stanley Smith Stevens Copy Share Image
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations,… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in… — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what… — David Liss Copy Share Image
When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much… — David Titley Copy Share Image
And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The peril of this century is spiritual apathy. As the body requires sunlight, good food, proper exercise and rest, so the spirit… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Quietly scuttling Columbus Day sales doesn't mean they are opposed to 15th century Iberian seafarers; it just means They don't want protestors… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The impact of climate change is relatively small. The average impact on welfare is equivalent to losing a few per cent of… — Richard Tol Copy Share Image
Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
