Best Last Century Sayings

79 Last Century quotes by 77 unique authors

• The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and… — Arthur Compton
• In the last century, everybody was singing lower. — Placido Domingo
• In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution. — Nina Fedoroff
• in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or… — Arthur Koestler
• The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a… — David Cameron
• Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term… — John Kenneth Galbraith
• As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• 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
• But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has… — Stephen Covey
• Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate… — Arthur Erickson
• The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave… — Carroll Quigley
• For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we… — Stacy Schiff
• Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century. — Denzel Washington
• The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. — Niklas Zennstrom
• Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the… — Hannah Arendt
• The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no… — Beatrix Potter
• Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales… — Terri Windling
• During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. — Albert Einstein
• My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in… — Roger Bannister
• Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must hope that there… — Benjamin Todd Jealous
• To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the… — Adora Svitak
• For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist. — Robert Littell
• One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. — Lafcadio Hearn
• The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. — Gabriel Lippmann
• Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession - about a hundred… — Brian Cox

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Who Wrote These Last Century Quotes

77 authors contributed a total of 79 Last Century Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Last Century Quotes by Khabibullo Abdusamatov
• 2 Last Century Quotes by Albert Einstein
• 1 Last Century Quote by Wolfgang Schauble
• 1 Last Century Quote by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
• 1 Last Century Quote by Wendell Phillips
• 1 Last Century Quote by Warren Buffett
• 1 Last Century Quote by Vernon Coleman
• 1 Last Century Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 Last Century Quote by Timothy Radcliffe
• 1 Last Century Quote by Terri Windling
• 1 Last Century Quote by Tammy Bruce
• 1 Last Century Quote by Stephen Covey
• 1 Last Century Quote by Stacy Schiff
• 1 Last Century Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• 1 Last Century Quote by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• 1 Last Century Quote by Roger Bannister
• 1 Last Century Quote by Robert Littell
• 1 Last Century Quote by Robert Duvall
• 1 Last Century Quote by Robert Andrews Millikan
• 1 Last Century Quote by Rahm Emanuel
• 1 Last Century Quote by Placido Domingo
• 1 Last Century Quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• 1 Last Century Quote by Paul Romer
• 1 Last Century Quote by Norman MacCaig
• 1 Last Century Quote by Nina Fedoroff