So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully… — David Hare Copy Share Image
The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil…. We [will] start to run out of all fossil… — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel. — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century. — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly. I… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
To those of us who have been following the climate debate for decades, the next few years will be electrifying. There is… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries -… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Perhaps the main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages, was the creation of the experimental spirit, or… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast,… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this… — Clifford Shull Copy Share Image
Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and… — John Garamendi Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody… — Dale Ahlquist Copy Share Image
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety. — David Lavender Copy Share Image
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“This here’s the twenty-first century. Just ’cause we’re women don’t mean we can’t be sick as men.” — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America. — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides… — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image