Quotes about Century

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. Votes: 5

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. Votes: 4

Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century. Votes: 3

It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles. Votes: 3

I am a 21st Century Yoda in stilettos. Votes: 3

I am the conscience of the 21st Century. Votes: 3

Genius always finds itself a century too early. Votes: 3

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century. Votes: 3

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. Votes: 3

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century. Votes: 3

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. Votes: 3

I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century Votes: 3

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. Votes: 3

The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century. Votes: 3

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy. Votes: 3

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century. Votes: 3

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Votes: 3

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration. Votes: 3

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century. Votes: 3

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. Votes: 3

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. Votes: 3

EFT is destined to be a top healing tool for the 21st Century. Votes: 3

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. Votes: 3

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none. Votes: 3

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. Votes: 3

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. Votes: 3

Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics Votes: 3

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come. Votes: 3

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five. Votes: 3

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism Votes: 3

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century. Votes: 3

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful. Votes: 3

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind Votes: 3

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour. Votes: 3

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right. Votes: 3

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care. Votes: 3

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with. Votes: 3

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. Votes: 3

Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED Votes: 3

We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools. Votes: 3

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety. Votes: 3

21st Century choice: Look after our planet and it will look after us, or don't and face the consequences Votes: 3

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. Votes: 3

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century. Votes: 3

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century. Votes: 3

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. Votes: 3

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. Votes: 3

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. Votes: 3

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months. Votes: 3

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Votes: 3

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. Votes: 3

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy. Votes: 3

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. Votes: 3

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. Votes: 3

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. Votes: 3

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. Votes: 3

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. Votes: 3

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed. Votes: 3

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell. Votes: 3

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains. Votes: 3

Without a song, each day would be a century. Votes: 1

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. Votes: 1

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. Votes: 1

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. Votes: 1

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. Votes: 1

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. Votes: 1

In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability. Votes: 1

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. Votes: 1

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century. Votes: 1

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! Votes: 1

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. Votes: 1

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture. Votes: 1

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character. Votes: 1

I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to do it in an exciting way so that I could reach more readers. Zombies seemed like a good way to do that. Votes: 1

I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric. Votes: 1

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century. Votes: 1

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens. Votes: 1

It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising. Votes: 1

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man. Votes: 1

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. Votes: 1

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette. Votes: 1

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative. Votes: 1

Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life. Votes: 1

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today. Votes: 1

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds. Votes: 1

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. Votes: 0

Science is our century's art. Votes: 0

Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost. Votes: 0

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic. Votes: 0

The twentieth century belongs to Canada. Votes: 0

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century. Votes: 0

This is the century of fear. Votes: 0

Our century is a brutal thinker. Votes: 0

If I could only live another century! Votes: 0

This young century will be liberty's century. Votes: 0

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction. Votes: 0

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. Votes: 0

In the 21st century, culture is power. Votes: 0

I'm making the comeback of the century. Votes: 0

Any team can have a bad century. Votes: 0

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art. Votes: 0

Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge. Votes: 0

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation Votes: 0

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families. Votes: 0

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. Votes: 0

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century. Votes: 0

Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century! Votes: 0

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts. Votes: 0

In the last century, everybody was singing lower. Votes: 0

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century. Votes: 0

There's always been a women's movement this century! Votes: 0

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century. Votes: 0

I am a child of the 21st century. Votes: 0

I am a person of the 18th century. Votes: 0

TV is the rat race of the century. Votes: 0

Hey, any team can have a bad century. Votes: 0

It was a little skirmish across a century. Votes: 0

India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century. Votes: 0

Television is the medium of the 20th century. Votes: 0

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century. Votes: 0

I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family. Votes: 0

In the 21st century, the database is the marketplace. Votes: 0

Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century Votes: 0

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century. Votes: 0

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century. Votes: 0

In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations. Votes: 0

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism. Votes: 0

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality. Votes: 0

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh. Votes: 0

In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar, Votes: 0

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century." Votes: 0

I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am. Votes: 0

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head. Votes: 0

Minds are the real estate of the 21st century. Votes: 0

Decades go faster toward the end of a century. Votes: 0

Our names were made for us in another century. Votes: 0

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. Votes: 0

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers. Votes: 0

Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone. Votes: 0

There are only one or two geniuses every century. Votes: 0

Aging will create the music of the coming century. Votes: 0

Water will be more important than oil this century Votes: 0

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels. Votes: 0

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century. Votes: 0

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. Votes: 0

Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. Votes: 0

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. Votes: 0

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century. Votes: 0

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form. Votes: 0

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city. Votes: 0

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople. Votes: 0

Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century. Votes: 0

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. Votes: 0

Live with your century; but do not be its creature. Votes: 0

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century. Votes: 0

Men who write love letters don't live in this century. Votes: 0

A century is about events. A decade is about people. Votes: 0

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods. Votes: 0

The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx. Votes: 0

Reality in our century is not something to be faced. Votes: 0

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century. Votes: 0

This century is going to be a very dangerous century. Votes: 0

I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century. Votes: 0

I have been the creative literary mind of the century. Votes: 0

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. Votes: 0

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century. Votes: 0

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle . Votes: 0

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. Votes: 0

Connecting products to the Web will be the 21st century electrification. Votes: 0

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier. Votes: 0

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century. Votes: 0

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper. Votes: 0

Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century. Votes: 0

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity. Votes: 0

Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century Votes: 0

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. Votes: 0

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy. Votes: 0

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. Votes: 0

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century. Votes: 0

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. Votes: 0

The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century. Votes: 0

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth! Votes: 0

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. Votes: 0

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water. Votes: 0

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century. Votes: 0

I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets. Votes: 0

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread. Votes: 0

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel Votes: 0

In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls. Votes: 0

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive. Votes: 0

I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile. Votes: 0

I think the next century will be the century of complexity. Votes: 0

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be. Votes: 0

Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century. Votes: 0

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century. Votes: 0

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated. Votes: 0

The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention. Votes: 0

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. Votes: 0

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science. Votes: 0

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention. Votes: 0

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND TELL EVERYONETHAT THIS IS HAPPENINGIN THE CENTURY TWENTY-ONE Votes: 0

The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress. Votes: 0

Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century. Votes: 0

Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue. Votes: 0

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. Votes: 0

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one. Votes: 0

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. Votes: 0

21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues! Votes: 0

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. Votes: 0

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. Votes: 0

I would argue [princess] Margaret is the tragic figure of the century. Votes: 0

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. Votes: 0

The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history. Votes: 0

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. Votes: 0

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. Votes: 0

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. Votes: 0

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. Votes: 0

The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full. Votes: 0

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. Votes: 0

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. Votes: 0

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now. Votes: 0

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world. Votes: 0

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books. Votes: 0

You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting. Votes: 0

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. Votes: 0

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier. Votes: 0

We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century, Votes: 0

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. Votes: 0

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time. Votes: 0

The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted. Votes: 0

Spending time on 18th-century ships in Tahiti when I was 17 was quite unusual. Votes: 0

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism. Votes: 0

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular. Votes: 0

Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk. Votes: 0

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America. Votes: 0

After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown. Votes: 0

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century. Votes: 0

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. Votes: 0

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. Votes: 0

The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. Votes: 0

I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century. Votes: 0

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. Votes: 0

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience. Votes: 0

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics Votes: 0

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses. Votes: 0

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century. Votes: 0

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. Votes: 0

The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak, Votes: 0

The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people. Votes: 0

There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man. Votes: 0

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. Votes: 0

Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century. Votes: 0

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Votes: 0

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century. Votes: 0

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive. Votes: 0

We have to rethink how to teach financial education in the 21st century. Votes: 0

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. Votes: 0

The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last. Votes: 0

I am confident that the next century will be better than this one. Votes: 0

I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century. Votes: 0

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes. Votes: 0

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century. Votes: 0

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. Votes: 0

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age Votes: 0

I am the man of the century. No one will ever forget me. Votes: 0

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? Votes: 0

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century. Votes: 0

Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on. Votes: 0

For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show. Votes: 0

I believe that we have the first genius of the 21st century, Leo Messi. Votes: 0

FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society. Votes: 0

I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets. Votes: 0

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years. Votes: 0

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away. Votes: 0

I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy. Votes: 0

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war. Votes: 0

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. Votes: 0

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century. Votes: 0

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice. Votes: 0

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. Votes: 0

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. Votes: 0

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. Votes: 0

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. Votes: 0

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. Votes: 0

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business. Votes: 0

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church Votes: 0

I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century. Votes: 0

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. Votes: 0

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it. Votes: 0

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists. Votes: 0

Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen Votes: 0

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century. Votes: 0

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. Votes: 0

The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy. Votes: 0

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. Votes: 0

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception. Votes: 0

Labor looks different in the 21st century. And so should our job training programs. Votes: 0

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century. Votes: 0

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century. Votes: 0

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology. Votes: 0

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. Votes: 0

Tim Ryan does not look like the 21st century democratic party. And should that matter? Votes: 0

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. Votes: 0

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world. Votes: 0

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of. Votes: 0

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. Votes: 0

Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world. Votes: 0

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills. Votes: 0

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. Votes: 0

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. Votes: 0

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law. Votes: 0

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply. Votes: 0

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. Votes: 0

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth. Votes: 0

Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century. Votes: 0

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century. Votes: 0

He lives century after century, and the test I set for him he has passed. Votes: 0

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead. Votes: 0

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day. Votes: 0

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. Votes: 0

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century. Votes: 0

One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century. Votes: 0

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century. Votes: 0

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century. Votes: 0

It's time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. Votes: 0

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news? Votes: 0

India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources Votes: 0

An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century. Votes: 0

I think the biggest problem of the 21st century is how to deal with minorities. Votes: 0

Game design isn't just a technological craft. It's a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading. Votes: 0

The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century. Votes: 0

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one. Votes: 0

If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. Votes: 0

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything. Votes: 0

Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Votes: 0

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they? Votes: 0

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it. Votes: 0

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century. Votes: 0

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND TELL EVERYONE... THAT THIS IS HAPPENING... IN THE CENTURY TWENTY-ONE Votes: 0

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. Votes: 0

If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century, Votes: 0

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. Votes: 0

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century, Votes: 0

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century. Votes: 0

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century. Votes: 0

We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline. Votes: 0

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee. Votes: 0

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century. Votes: 0

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. Votes: 0

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. Votes: 0

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise. Votes: 0

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. Votes: 0

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. Votes: 0

The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment. Votes: 0

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century. Votes: 0

The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century. Votes: 0

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. Votes: 0

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint. Votes: 0

Soon now, the faint tinkling of a broken filament will become another sound of another century. Votes: 0

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together. Votes: 0

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century. Votes: 0

The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. Votes: 0

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing. Votes: 0

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest. Votes: 0

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st. Votes: 0

I'd share a pic if the digital camera battery wasn't as flat as 17th century Earth. Votes: 0

The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology Votes: 0

Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century. Votes: 0

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example. Votes: 0

I'd share a pic if the digital camera battery wasn't as flat as 17th century Earth Votes: 0

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century. Votes: 0

Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century. Votes: 0

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century, Votes: 0

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits. Votes: 0

If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century. Votes: 0

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. Votes: 0

God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century. Votes: 0

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works. Votes: 0

I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me. Votes: 0

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century. Votes: 0

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. Votes: 0

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century Votes: 0

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. Votes: 0

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. Votes: 0

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. Votes: 0

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. Votes: 0

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century. Votes: 0

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man. Votes: 0

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book. Votes: 0

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue. Votes: 0

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. Votes: 0

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm. Votes: 0

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. Votes: 0

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America. Votes: 0

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud. Votes: 0

I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film. Votes: 0

To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century. Votes: 0

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades. Votes: 0

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew. Votes: 0

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century. Votes: 0

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. Votes: 0

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. Votes: 0

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. Votes: 0

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century. Votes: 0

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century. Votes: 0

The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism. Votes: 0

At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety. Votes: 0

The late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery. Votes: 0

I'll just say, you know, over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. Votes: 0

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent Votes: 0

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century. Votes: 0

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless. Votes: 0

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics. Votes: 0

Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century. Votes: 0

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted. Votes: 0

Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject. Votes: 0

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans Votes: 0

You'll get fired if anyone finds out about us!""So many rules in this century," Vane muttered. Votes: 0

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it. Votes: 0

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him. Votes: 0

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever. Votes: 0

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century. Votes: 0

The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English. Votes: 0

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century. Votes: 0

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life. Votes: 0

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. Votes: 0

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies. Votes: 0

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor. Votes: 0

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. Votes: 0

Congratulations! If I may be so bold Only 40 years to go Before you're a century old Just saying Votes: 0

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Votes: 0

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century. Votes: 0

We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century. Votes: 0

The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue. Votes: 0

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century. Votes: 0

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.' Votes: 0

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be. Votes: 0

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. Votes: 0

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century. Votes: 0

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. Votes: 0

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century. Votes: 0

My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century. Votes: 0

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. Votes: 0

I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life. Votes: 0

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next. Votes: 0

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe. Votes: 0

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane. Votes: 0

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later. Votes: 0

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family. Votes: 0

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. Votes: 0

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can. Votes: 0

It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century ... Votes: 0

Queen Elizabeth of England is the real fashion icon of the century. And she has a sense of humor. Votes: 0

There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century. Votes: 0

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path. Votes: 0

I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer. Votes: 0

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it. Votes: 0

We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem Votes: 0

Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century. Votes: 0

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps. Votes: 0

Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it. Votes: 0

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. Votes: 0

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century. Votes: 0

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive. Votes: 0

I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster. Votes: 0

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. Votes: 0

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it? Votes: 0

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then. Votes: 0

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century. Votes: 0

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel. Votes: 0

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century. Votes: 0

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century. Votes: 0

I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century. Votes: 0

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago. Votes: 0

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. Votes: 0

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. Votes: 0

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago. Votes: 0

I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love Votes: 0

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. Votes: 0

He ran a gas station down in St. Louis... No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century. Votes: 0

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. Votes: 0

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. Votes: 0

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time. Votes: 0

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century Votes: 0

I am a 21st century man. I don’t believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death. Votes: 0

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. Votes: 0

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. Votes: 0

Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century. Votes: 0

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant Votes: 0

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century. Votes: 0

It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. Votes: 0

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess. Votes: 0

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. Votes: 0

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century. Votes: 0

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century. Votes: 0

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st. Votes: 0

What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all. Votes: 0

The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go. Votes: 0

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good. Votes: 0