Century famous quotes

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
-- A. L. Rowse

#Hate #Century #Filthy

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,
-- Achim Steiner

#Humanity #Way #Century

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
-- Alan Hovhaness

#Sympathy #Thinking #Century

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
-- Alan Paton

#Dawn #Failing #Century

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
-- Albert Camus

#Real #Passion #Century

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
-- Albert Camus

#People #Happiness And Love #Century

This is the century of fear.
-- Albert Camus

#Fear #Century

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Brother #My Brother #Century

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
-- Alberto Moravia

#Writing #Layers #Century

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
-- Alexandra Kerry

#Stronger #Fiction #Century

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.
-- Alfred Bester

#Age #Freak #Century

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Information #Printing #Century

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
-- Allison Pearson

#Men #Virtue #Century

Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.
-- Alvin Plantinga

#Lasts #Philosopher #Century

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
-- Andrew Carnegie

#Peace #Men #Century

We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming
-- Andrew Simms

#Half #Global Warming #Century

We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.
-- Ann McLane Kuster

#Jobs #Needs #Century

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
-- Anne Stevenson

#Horror #Century #21st Century

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.
-- Arne Glimcher

#Dream #Century #20th Century

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.
-- Art Spiegelman

#Guy #Way #Century

Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.
-- Augustus De Morgan

#Logic #Improvement #Century

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
-- Barbara Amiel

#Century #Feudalism #Totalitarianism

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
-- Barbara Amiel

#Movement #Communist #Century

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
-- Barbara Tuchman

#Pain #Emotion #Century

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.
-- Baroness Orczy

#England #Emotion #Century

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
-- Barry Lopez

#Quality #Century #Despise

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
-- Barry McGuigan

#Boxing #Training #Century

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
-- Ben Elton

#Century #Worst #Over It

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Historical #Century #Fascism

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
-- Bernard-Henri Levy

#Successful #Revolution #Century

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
-- Betty Dodson

#Sacrifice #Female #Century

Aging will create the music of the coming century.
-- Betty Friedan

#Aging #Century

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist.  There's no evidence for it.
-- Bill Nye

#Couple #Century #Evidence

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.
-- Bjork

#Age #Emergencies #Century

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
-- Bjork

#Wind #Way #Century

I'm making the comeback of the century.
-- Bob Backlund

#Comeback #Century

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth
-- Boris Pasternak

#Men #Beast #Century

My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
-- Bram Stoker

#Revenge #Sides #Century

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.
-- Brian Aldiss

#People #Lasts #Century

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

#Arguing #Century #Composer

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
-- Brian Greene

#Upheaval #Mathematics #Century

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
-- Bruce Sterling

#Ruins #Century #21st Century

If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century,
-- Bruno Le Maire

#Scandal #Century #Famine

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
-- Calvin Trillin

#Hands #My Family #Century

EFT is destined to be a top healing tool for the 21st Century.
-- Candace Pert

#Healing #Tools #Century

If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.
-- Carl Sagan

#Century #Constellations #20th Century

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Opera #Classic #Century

I am a person of the 18th century.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Century #18th Century #Persons

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
-- Celia Green

#Children #People #Century

By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.
-- Charles F. Haanel

#Discovery #Century #Power Of Thought

Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.
-- Charles Henry Fowler

#Perfect #Remember #Century

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.
-- Christian Lous Lange

#Europe #Feelings #Century

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.
-- Christiane Amanpour

#Events #Century #Ends

Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.
-- Chuck D

#Real #Mind #Century

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
-- Claude Debussy

#Airplane #Century

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
-- Claude Debussy

#Century #Precedent #Deserve

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss

#What Matters #Collecting #Century

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism
-- Constance Baker Motley

#Racism #African American #Century

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.
-- Cornel West

#Century #Form #Tribalism

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Writing #Common #Century

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Believe #Peaceful #Century

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.
-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Faces #Century #Salute

for centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new ...
-- Dale Spender

#Today #Century

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin

#Literature #Advertising #Century

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.
-- David G. Hartwell

#Fiction #Century #Characteristics

Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.
-- David Grimes

#Abortion #Century #Quarters

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.
-- David Hare

#Trying #Libertarian #Century

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
-- David Hare

#Poetry #Century #Prose

In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
-- David McCullough

#Powerful #Facts #Century

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.
-- Diana Butler Bass

#Glasses #Internet #Century

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Luxury #Spirit #Century

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.
-- Donna J. Haraway

#Machines #Century #Chimera

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church
-- Eddie Gibbs

#Church #Saws #Century

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent
-- Edward James Olmos

#Looks #Violent #Century

I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.
-- Edward Wilmot Blyden

#Race #Greek #Century

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn ...
-- Eleanor Clark

#Rome #Impossible #Century

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.
-- Elias Canetti

#Fall #Done #Century

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
-- Emile Zola

#Tolerance #Lessons #Century

I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am.
-- Eric Holder

#Who I Am #Guy #Century

Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.
-- Errico Malatesta

#Today #Tomorrow #Century

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.
-- FM-2030

#Nostalgia #Century #21st Century

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.
-- Frank B. Kellogg

#Defense #Adequate #Century

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.
-- Frank Crowninshield

#America #France #Century

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.
-- Frank Rich

#News #Century #Tics

True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.
-- Franz Cumont

#Determination #Science #Century

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
-- Frederick W. Smith

#Government #Arena #Century

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Literature #Century #Creatures

Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century.
-- Gail Levin

#Photography #Century #Masters

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.
-- Garrett Fort

#Men #Murder #Century

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.
-- Gary Hamel

#Roles #Hierarchy #Century

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
-- Gary Saul Morson

#Lines #Century #Quotations

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
-- Gavin Bryars

#Writing #Century #19th Century

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.
-- Geoffrey Blainey

#Sports #Forget #Century

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
-- Georg Buchner

#Humanity #Century #Stride

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.
-- George Crumb

#Influence #Century #Turns

A century is about events. A decade is about people.
-- George Friedman

#People #Events #Century

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
-- George Saintsbury

#Melancholy #Century

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.
-- Gerard Arpey

#Three #Funny Travel #Century

I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.
-- Geri Halliwell

#Tired #Littles #Century

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.
-- Giacomo Leopardi

#Art #Discipline #Century