The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century. — Jack the Ripper Copy Share Image
Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!” — John Milton Copy Share Image
The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the… — Alain Aspect Copy Share Image
Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number… — Michael Arlen Copy Share Image
In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade,… — Erastus Wiman Copy Share Image
“At the dawn of the twentieth century, it was already clear that, chemically speaking, you and I are not much different from… — Philip Nelson Copy Share Image
Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
“I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the virgin's-hair whip and the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
We've come a long way since 'Beowulf.' In the twentieth century, a strain in children's and YA literature offered the humorously conceived… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The twentieth will be a short century,” he said. “Either we or the Soviets will launch the missiles before long, and all… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
