We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was… — Peter Wolf Copy Share Image
For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and… — John Garamendi Copy Share Image
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Polls are now even more meaningless than ever... there was the case of Ronnie O'Brien, the young footballer who incredibly found himself… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does... The average architect is stupid. He doesn't know… — Julius Shulman Copy Share Image
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century. — Li Peng Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century. — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
