Century Quotes · Page 69

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility,…

— Charles Baudelaire

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are…

— Leo Tolstoy

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What…

— Hanif Kureishi

The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital…

— David Blankenhorn

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is…

— Paul Newman

Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and…

— Dustin Hoffman

What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity…

— James Lovelock

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

— Cecil B. DeMille

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out,…

— Mark Twain

King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king.…

— Tony Blair

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part…

— Johnny Vegas

At the time Latin America was composed only of colonies. We were up against the biggest army of the colonial world, the…

— Michele Montas

In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in…

— Robertson Davies

Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with…

— Walter de La Mare

I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human…

— Kate Beckinsale

If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.

— Daisaku Ikeda

The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of…

— Ithiel de Sola Pool

Prior to the early 20th century, for the totality of humankind's existence if they saw something moving, it meant it was there.…

— Chuck Klosterman

As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made…

— Michael Beschloss

When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you…

— Grigori Rasputin

The decision [to create a theme park called "EuroWorld"] was made by the EU countries in response to their collective realization that…

— Jonah Goldberg

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

— Barry Lopez

Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad…

— Richard Askey

[I was] particularly eager to give voice to the women of my mother's place and generation, who grew up in turn-of-the-century, privileged…

— Tina Howe

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when…

— Stendhal

The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of…

— Rebecca West

'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the…

— William Gibson

There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to…

— David Abram

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

— Russel Honore

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance…

— Susan Sontag

Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution…

— Judith Curry

[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to,…

— Dave Barry

I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the…

— Joseph Campbell

I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first…

— Bill Nye

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

— Robert Breault

[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or…

— Rudolph Rummel

21st century is the century of knowledge and the world has always looked at India whenever knowledge finds prominence. Emergence of knowledge…

— Narendra Modi

No alcohol, Riley." She nodded at the screen. "How are you liking the twenty-first century?" Riley burped. "The Take That are most…

— Eoin Colfer