Century Quotes

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.

If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.

I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.

For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.

I would argue [princess] Margaret is the tragic figure of the century.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.

We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.

I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.

My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together.

I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.

Truth takes no account of centuries.

Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.

The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much mainland Europe, for example.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment.

...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!

Gone are the days when success depends on how you use your muscle tissues. In this 21st century, your brain cells must work more than your muscle tissues!

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist."(Voltaire)

Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.

We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

It is not so much about fighting against the ego

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

Enjoy without injury, live without loss.

If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men.

I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.

distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)

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No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.