Century Quotes

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

Congratulations! If I may be so bold Only 40 years to go Before you're a century old Just saying

Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.

I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look at some of these issues after Ferguson.

Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into the proper paths: but nothing happened!

A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.

I'll just say, you know, over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

I understand the power of the internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.

It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.

That seems to be a woman who is genuinely depressed that this is the political dialogue she [Hillary Clinton] is been thrown into in the 21st century in running for president of the United States.

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.

I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.

Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact.

his voice was centuries old

I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

We have a historic system in place since the early part of the last century and this is going to be one of the biggest battles in California if we decide to take it on.

It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling.

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.

My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.

So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.