One of the things that really impressed me about Anna Karenina when I first read it was how Tolstoy sets you up… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man. — Henry A. Wallace 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
Peace will not wipe out the memory of the massacres it has committed...And on this last day of the century, I promise… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
They say that this century is going to be an Asian Century. I am very clear that without embracing the path and… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill. — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our… — Michael Dowd Copy Share Image
Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free… — Greg Lukianoff Copy Share Image
The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led… — David Batstone Copy Share Image
I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course,… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image