Century Before Quotes

7 quotes by 7 authors

• Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of… — David Bronstein
• World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when… — David Frum
• Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If… — Leo Tolstoy
• The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century,… — David Byrne
• 'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last… — Penn Jillette
• As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my… — Henry Adams
• You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of… — Hermann von Helmholtz

Who Wrote These Century Before Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 7 Century Before Quotes as follows:

• 1 Century Before Quote by David Bronstein
• 1 Century Before Quote by David Frum
• 1 Century Before Quote by Leo Tolstoy
• 1 Century Before Quote by David Byrne
• 1 Century Before Quote by Penn Jillette
• 1 Century Before Quote by Henry Adams
• 1 Century Before Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz