I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To be an Irish poet after that 19th century in which there was such a struggle toward the light, I think still… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
In the 21st Century, the community of nations may see more and more of this very kind of threat that Iraq poses… — Sandy Berger Copy Share Image
It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles,… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for The Walt Disney Company's long- term success is really the first of Dr. Deming's famous points, "create… — Bill Capodagli Copy Share Image
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century 'mechanical' philosophers, there is no intentionality in… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . . If the world is dominated by people who believe that… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The health-care law, irrespective of how people feel about the aims of it - and obviously I don't agree with Obamacare -… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the… — Tony Kornheiser Copy Share Image
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you look at say, England and Germany a century ago, which had the most advanced navies then, they were dealing with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
We're Catholics before we're Democrats. We're Catholics before we're Republicans. We're even Catholics before we're Americans, because we know that God has… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the eighties and nineties, the innovation agenda was exclusively focused on enterprises. There was a time in which economic and social… — Diogo Vasconcelos Copy Share Image
Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image