Century Quotes · Page 2

What if miliseconds influence centuries?

— Robert Cowley

“Different century. It’s totally okay.”

— Gwenn Wright

Science is our century's art.

— Horace Freeland Judson

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

— Russell Lynes

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

— Martin Firrell

If I could only live another century!

— Susan B. Anthony

Our century is a brutal thinker.

— Pierre-Jean de Beranger

I'm making the comeback of the century.

— Bob Backlund

The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

— Albert Camus

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

— Sinclair Lewis

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.

— James Hansen

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

He loved us personally...centuries before we were born.

— Peter Julian Eymard

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

— Mary Catherwood

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such…

— Richard Schmid

Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we…

— Hugh Herr

The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.

— Barack Obama

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

— Alan Moore

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

— Anonymous

Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the…

— St. Sukie de la Croix

I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.

— David Mitchell

A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been…

— Ruth Reichl

Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always…

— Frederick Rolfe

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you…

— Harold Bloom

Actually what is happening in the twenty-first century, this is the great century of migration, so we have people from all around…

— Roma Tearne

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the…

— Tony Kornheiser

Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or…

— James Hillman

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People…

— Julia Roberts

I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever,…

— Charles Koch

Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of…

— Stuart L. Hart

We [with Shindzo Abe] should understand that the results of that terrible tragedy of the 20th century, namely World War II, are…

— Vladimir Putin

If I can show that a woman can run 26 miles, and run it well -- stride for stride with the men…

— Bobbi Gibb

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand,…

— Karl Marx

The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of…

— Theodor Adorno

One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest…

— Sam Harris

...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is…

— George C. Edwards III