Century Quotes

I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.

There's always been a women's movement this century!

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation.

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.

If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!

They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

You cannot be a fully functioning 21st-century citizen in America unless you have access to high-speed broadband. It's as simple as that.

No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children's minds?

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.

The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century. This upheaval will take time to fully reveal its implications.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

The right way to proceed when we face the kind of challenges we face is to pursue the strategy which Ronald Reagan pursued when we faced the challenges of the last century.

I believe the world benefits from American leadership. I believe this next century should be an American century.

I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world...

People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one that caters to the aspirations of 21st century India.

They say that this century is going to be an Asian Century. I am very clear that without embracing the path and ideals shown by Gautam Buddha this century cannot be an Asian century!

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR.

In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder].

We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

The 'corporatization of America' during the past century has been an attack on democracy.

I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel.

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying down the conceptual (necessary) truths.

I really haven't joined the 20th or the 21st century yet. Someday. I'm getting closer. I have voicemail and a fax machine.