Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I think our initiative with respect to education and economic development can work in Saudi Arabia and it is up to the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real… — David Lereah Copy Share Image
There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those… — Paul Kantner Copy Share Image
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that,… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it. — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think he [Vaclav Havel] is one of the great figures of the 20th century. He is one of the people that… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century, — Bruno Le Maire Copy Share Image
the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Across all Cinderella versions it was clear that the 21st century was not very much in evidence, particularly in the character of… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans - whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
Muslims have been an almost entirely benevolent force in the 20th century. They did not wreak the havoc the Western powers wreaked… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
He will long be remembered as one of the great Christian thinkers of our century, with a childlike faith and a profound… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The nerds provide the toys that distract the morons. So the nerds are sort of the new drug-dealers. We're the drug dealers… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it’s a good thing we’re in the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label. — George Meany Copy Share Image
whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though… — Inez Haynes Irwin Copy Share Image
In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image