The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving… — Shepard Smith Copy Share Image
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
Until we begin to discover the national values that for centuries have allowed us to rise above our natures and act as… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We do not understand much of anything, from... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities.… — Bertrand Russell 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
In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these… — Roel Reine Copy Share Image
Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women. — David Grimes Copy Share Image
“Yes, our century is called the 21st century, but some countries are in the 16th century, some leaders in the 9th century,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image