I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself… — John Green Copy Share Image
I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world,… — Robert D. Kaplan 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
I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised… — Norman Lockyer Copy Share Image
We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created… — Christian Lous Lange 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
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
[Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and… — Dana Goldstein 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
Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism… — Albion Woodbury Small Copy Share Image
The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it… — Gertrude Stein 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
Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. .… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France,… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image