Century Quote by John Bracken

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

— Anonymous

[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

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

— Anonymous

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

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

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

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

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

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

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

The young people today are the 21st century.

— Martin Scorsese

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