Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators,… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring… — Nicholas D. Kristof 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
Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of… — Cyril Burt Copy Share Image
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. .… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
There must be no bloodshed, no violence unless it is defensive, no coercion! We must do it our way and our way… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill…[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with… — Julien Torma Copy Share Image
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of… — Wellington Mara Copy Share Image
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff Copy Share Image
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had. — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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