Century Quotes

I think Jeremiah is for our times. But whether the church in the west will listen to the Word of God today any more than in the chaos of 7th century BC middle east... Only God knows.

No one can survive on their own. Thinking you can is ridiculous, especially going into the middle half of the 21st century. To think you can do it alone is just ridiculous.

Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. . .

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery.

And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.

We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.

There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.

We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.

We're not great friends, but I admire him. If he thinks he's the best player of the century, that's his problem.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

21st Century choice: Look after our planet and it will look after us, or don't and face the consequences

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics

Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas.

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.

I was born in 1929, and in the 50 years from 1930 to 1980, I've been able to live an unbelievably varied century. Before, you could never have seen such intense change in a 50-year span.

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.