If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries. — Takeshi Kaneshiro Copy Share Image
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. — Richard Ellmann Copy Share Image
People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it. — Celia Green 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
In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to… — Rachel Copy Share Image
... we cannot rule out the possibility that the changes of recent decades are part of a natural rebound from the 'Little… — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Politicians and some of the scientists like to say that there's a consensus now on global warming or the science has been… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny. — Charles Hartshorne Copy Share Image
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation… — William Labov Copy Share Image
... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are… — Sara Groves Copy Share Image
... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy. — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
