Century Quote by Richard Brautigan

[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

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce…

— Barack Obama

It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it didfor millions…

— Frederick Buechner

But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange…

— John Green

What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love their Friends…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the greatest achievement…

— Gary Carter

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

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

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

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

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

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