Century Quotes
3251 quotes by 2224 authors
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
— Karen Armstrong
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
— Neil Armstrong
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who…
— Isaac Asimov
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different…
— Chinua Achebe
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
— Chinua Achebe
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have…
— Margaret Atwood
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life…
— Emilie Autumn
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
— Lord Acton
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries,…
— Cleveland Abbe
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
— Russell Baker
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
— J. G. Ballard
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the…
— Balthus
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I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.
— John Banville
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
— Neal Barnard
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And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came…
— Dave Barry
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
— Charles Baudelaire
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In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to…
— Martha Beck
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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