The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills,… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot wrote almost a century ago about a phenomenon that he believed to be the product of the nineteenth century: “When… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinking of himself as an animal… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one… — Leonard Susskind 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
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between… — Waller R Newell Copy Share Image
The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
“Because it is written by a nineteenth-century American, and because of its closeness to the twentieth century, The Portrait of a Lady… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“From a long view of the history of mankind-seen from, say, ten thousand years from now-there can be little doubt that the… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation,… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“At the dawn of the nineteenth century, many parts of the world, especially in Africa, lacked a state that could provide even… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“For he to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
