Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or… — John Grant Copy Share Image
Judge Samuel Alito was born and raised in the great state of New Jersey. Our state has a legacy of producing outstanding… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power;… — Alex Carey Copy Share Image
Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration. — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single… — John Ziman Copy Share Image
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part,… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
We're much closer together in the world today than we ever were in the psot. Given that it is a much smaller… — John Hume Copy Share Image
Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The basic idea is that there is this group that, over the centuries, has learned to control reincarnation. John's character stumbles into… — Glen Morgan Copy Share Image
The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees." — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state. — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future. — FM-2030 Copy Share Image
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image