Century Quotes · Page 22

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

— Friedrich Schiller

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

— Helen Vendler

My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.

— Philip Treacy

I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love

— Michael Ondaatje

I'd share a pic if the digital camera battery wasn't as flat as 17th century Earth.

— Simon Haynes

We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

— Judy Collins

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

— David Hockney

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

— Gertrude Stein

The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.

— Pentti Linkola

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

— Joan Collins

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year,…

— Jean Giraudoux

Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of…

— David Elkind

The Raspberries were together two years for one century. It was a very successful failure of a group.

— Eric Carmen

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

— Anonymous

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

— John Fowles

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and…

— N. T. Wright

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging…

— Alex Steffen

Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the…

— Lech Walesa

I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good…

— Neil Gaiman

During the centuries-long process of Reformation and Enlightenment, Christian churches had to accept some things they didn't like. Islam will have to…

— Wolfgang Schauble

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs…

— Cleveland Abbe

A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers…

— Marvin Minsky

Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not…

— Anonymous

Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical…

— Philo

One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this,…

— Thomas Aquinas

If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home…

— Romain Rolland

It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these…

— Mark Twain

The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes,…

— Jean Baudrillard

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies?…

— Neal A. Maxwell

It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me…

— Robert L. Devaney

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century.

— C.P. Snow

I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.

— Laura Ashley

“The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.”

— Clive Barker

You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting.

— John Kasich

We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.

— Ann McLane Kuster

We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century,

— Dan Quayle

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

— Leonard Bernstein

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson