Century Quotes

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

He loved us personally...centuries before we were born.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.

Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?

For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.

In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.

Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century.

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.

I support moving toward more clean, renewable energy as quickly as we can, because I think we [America] can be the 21st century clean energy superpower and create millions of new jobs and businesses.

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

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

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.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

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.