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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
— Mary Quant
The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.
— Diana Butler Bass
Every morning I read the obituaries. If it ain't there I make myself a cup of tea and carry on like I have the past century or so.
— Lois Greiman
Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century.
— John C. Lettsome
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
— Nikola Tesla
The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.
— Louis Dudek
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
— L.M. Montgomery
No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.
— David Goodstein
In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century.
— Anthony Pratt
I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love
— Michael Ondaatje
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
— Pankaj Mishra
Most of the languages that now exist are almost certain to become extinct within this century.
— John McWhorter
Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed.
— David Hewson
The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century's frontier.
— Bruce Sterling
In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
The discovery that the universe was expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.
— Stephen Hawking
Devout or not, all owned and carried Books of Hours, the characteristic fashionable religious possession of the 14th century noble.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.
— Tucker Max
The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.
— Jethro Tull
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
— Dalai Lama
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
— Alvin Toffler
The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow ... on how elections are won in the 21st century.
— Douglas Alexander
The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.
— Nils-Axel Morner
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
— Arthur C. Clarke
G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.
— Dale Ahlquist
Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.
— Robert James Thomson
Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
— Barry McGuigan
The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.
— Alec-Tweedie
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
— Sophie Swetchine
I was surprised when Nixon passed the test and showed up in heaven, but, I guess Hitler threw off the curve for our century.
— Lenny Bruce
he appeared to have run out of shits to give sometime in the previous century. Today,
— Ernest Cline
I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
— Gertrude Stein
This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.
— Manil Suri
Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.
— Silas Weir Mitchell
Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.
— Daniel Kleppner
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
— Barbra Streisand
This is who Ezra is dating now. He is now into girls who are into dressing up as nineteenth century prostitutes. For the hats.
— Leila Sales
The dominant ethos of the twenty-first century consists of an intermingling of the sacred and the secular.
— Harvey Cox
Girly' products can spur Japan's growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the 'manly' technologies.
— Morinosuke Kawaguchi
General theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. They are the great intellectual achievements of the first half of this century.
— Stephen Hawking
a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly - and with very limited funds.
— John Kennedy Toole
Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.
— Terence McKenna
That your power of commandwith simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
— Avery Brundage
The prototypic Don Juan, invented early in the XVI century by a Spanish monk, was
— George Bernard Shaw
That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.
— Douglas Preston
I think a revolution transitioning from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy - somebody's going to be the 21st-century clean-energy superpower.
— Hillary Clinton
The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.
— Peter Drucker
It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
— Vivienne Westwood
A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th century.
— David Letterman
. In the 19th century, Europe invaded and colonised Africa. In the 21st century, Africa invades and colonises Europe.
— Matthew Reilly
Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.
— Shoshana Zuboff
As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.
— Roselee Goldberg
Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.
— John Bracken
The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
— Francis Parker Yockey
Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans
— Dean Cavanagh
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
— Leonard Slatkin
I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century
— Charlton Heston
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[W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.
— Charles Hartshorne
I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.
— Werner Heisenberg
The World Health Organization has named antibiotic resistance as one of the three major health problems of the new century.
— Ralph Nader
We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.
— Polykarp Kusch
I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
— Mary Oliver
I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.
— Robert Anton Wilson
By the seventh century, Christianity probably was far stronger and more sophisticated in North Africa and Asia than in Europe.
— Rodney Stark
The CIA has been at the root of every dirty little war America has fought in this century. The CIA and dollar diplomacy.
— Stephen King
The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.
— Chaim Potok
The rise of the global middle class will pave the way for a new golden age in Australian society.
— Asher Judah
Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.
— Gary Zukav
I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox.
— Anna Freeman
Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.
— Meg Jay
Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.
— Daisaku Ikeda
The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.
— Michael Medved
