Century Quotes · Page 9

An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century.

— George W. Bush

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

— Alan Paton

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

— John Lothrop Motley

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

The phylosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.

— Christina Aguilera

I am ashamed of my century for being so entertaining but I have to smile.

— Frank O'Hara

Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.

— Charles Duhigg

The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

— Anonymous

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the…

— Robertson Davies

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a…

— Guy Davenport

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people,…

— Jung Chang

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

— Susan Sontag

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the…

— Valentina Tereshkova

My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative…

— Bobby Clarke

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism…

— C. L. R. James

The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a…

— A. Hunter Dupree

I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making…

— Christopher Nolan

...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after…

— R. H. Tawney

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully…

— Robert Scholes

I think there was a moment in the middle part of the century into the 60s, 70s when at least elite journalism…

— William Kristol

We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely…

— Barack Obama

The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain…

— Isaiah Berlin

The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the…

— Lord Acton

We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of…

— Catherine Wilson

Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was…

— Richard Engel

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our…

— David Rockefeller

Earlier the world was bi polar. Foreign policy would be centered around two super powers. India was a little late in realizing…

— Narendra Modi

It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more…

— H. L. Mencken

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

— Dan Brown

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

— Vernon L. Smith

The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

— Anthony Jeselnik

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

— Jim Fowler

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.

— Andre Malraux

Tim Ryan does not look like the 21st century democratic party. And should that matter?

— Chuck Todd

I would have loved to have been in Hong Kong, or China, in around the 18th century.

— Keith Allen

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson