The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and… — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of… — David Lee Copy Share Image
One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat… — Arthur Oncken Lovejoy Copy Share Image
Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately. — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich,… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the… — Jef Raskin Copy Share Image
Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice Is that thou utterest while all else is still-- The ancient voice that, centuries ago,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different.… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries. — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image