Century Quotes

The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

I am ashamed of my century for being so entertaining but I have to smile.

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the same type of exercise [like Romans].

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

What are we doing that for in the 21st century? Why on earth would we teach kids that girls are less important than boys? It just made no sense to me.

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist.

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.