Twentieth Quotes

286 Twentieth quotes by 239 unique authors

Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans… — Jim Butcher
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this… — Nicholas D. Kristof
I donâ€™t mind the disapproving ones so much. Itâ€™s the tolerant ones I canâ€™t stand, the ones who smile at Rose, who speak to her… — Franny Billingsley
The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character â€“ with the perennial problem of the inner order… — Russell Kirk
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. — David Mitchell
Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if thatâ€™s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting… — Joss Whedon
In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake. — Pat Conroy
Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold… — Alan Moore
In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold… — Dan Simmons
The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one… — Stella Gibbons
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

Who Wrote These Twentieth Quotes

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