Twentieth Quotes

286 Twentieth quotes by 239 unique authors

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life. — Aldous Huxley
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! — John Milton
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one. — Andrew Carnegie
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden… — Lewis Thomas
Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed… — Simon Newcomb
If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my… — Amy Carmichael
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of… — Martin Filler
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America. — Frank Crowninshield
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler
Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity. — Robert H. Schuller
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but… — Maya Angelou
If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times. — Noam Chomsky
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it. — David Novak
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world. — Alain Aspect
The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see… — Virginia Postrel
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. — Jill Lepore
All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated. — Malcolm Gladwell
Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and… — Robert Reich
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions… — Rick Perlstein
For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid… — James Gleick
One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to… — James Gleick
In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so… — Ruth Glick
Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities,… — Michael Arlen
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us… — Rowan Williams
The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. — John Charles Polanyi

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