Twentieth Quotes

286 Twentieth quotes by 239 unique authors

The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you're down for the third or… — Unknown Author
Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory… — Kenneth Waltz
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. — Tim Wu
The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century. — Manolo Blahnik
This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a… — Wim Crouwel
Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off one of our… — Unknown Author
I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things… — Wendy Lesser
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would… — Jim Elliot
I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century. — Nigel Melville
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight. — Neil Armstrong
In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious… — Laurie Garrett
The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When… — Richard Heinberg
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about… — Jenna Elfman
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness.… — Don DeLillo
Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina… — Rajneesh
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy. — Charles W. Pickering
In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth,… — Frederick Franck
As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy,… — Huston Smith
The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of… — George Gilder
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama
A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and… — Garry Kasparov
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. — Kim Stanley

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239 authors contributed a total of 286 Twentieth Quotes, led by these top contributors: