It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter… — John Maxwell Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth. — Spyridon Marinatos Copy Share Image
During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm reading "The Sunset of a Splendid Century" by W.H. Lewis. He was C.S. Lewis's brother. He wrote two books about the… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender… — Jil Sander Copy Share Image
Like probably a lot of people, I came away from watching films like 'Miss Representation' and 'Half the Sky' with the realization… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
The United Nations is actually a mid-20th century institution and much weaker than it was when it was originally created, because governments… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
“Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 21st century will be the Asian century. This also means that Asians will be expected to provide greater leadership to solve… — Kishore Mahbubani Copy Share Image
Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des… — Sebastian Smee Copy Share Image
Like any classic you hope to get rid of all the varnish that's built up over the centuries where people expect it… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries. — Alberto Villoldo 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
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
