Century Quote by H. G. Wells Download Open image “The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.” — H. G. Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Change Dwarfs Dwarves Lasts
When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century… — Cynthia Tucker Copy Share Image
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century… — Charles Holland Duell Copy Share Image
If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
“A new generation forgets the specters that may have tormented the old… And yet, always, to all eternity, it is the same specter assailing… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
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