We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages. — Cullen Murphy Copy Share Image
Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation's sewer systems, many of them built more than… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills,… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Personally, I've been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been… — Patrick Hayden Copy Share Image
In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
In order for humanity to survive in the twenty-first century and beyond, we must nurture rather than repress children's natural curiosity. We… — Paul K. Chappell Copy Share Image
Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
There's a potter that lived back in the 1800s, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his name was George Ohr. He was of Russian… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
The constants all through the centuries will be the same; wine, women and song. Other than that, life will be very different… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of… — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon… — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a… — Dan Gillerman Copy Share Image
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
