The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the… — St. Sukie de la Croix Copy Share Image
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century,… — Ralph Siu Copy Share Image
The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information can be… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
President Bush said that American workers will need new skills to get the new jobs in the 21st century. Some of the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
Latin America is very fond of the word "hope." We like to be called the "continent of hope." Candidates for deputy, senator,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries:… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
