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What does a good man fall back on when the situation is desperate? His faith, of course. The science of a new century. The love of his friends. — Stephen King

Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow. — Dean Koontz

They had been harboring a hatred for us which we had grown accustomed to calling "prejudice." What a gentle word that was! What a euphemism! — Edith Hahn Beer

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel. — David Goodstein

Geez what is it with these guys and their swords, why can't they just century up and get normal bad guy weapons? — Caitlyn Santi

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk. — Tori Amos

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought. — Charles A. Murray

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume. — Sandra Tsing Loh

If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls. — Kage Baker

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century — Max Beerbohm

What destroys a craving? Realization of one's true self. - Shankara, a ninth-century sage — Carol Cottrill

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. — James Buchan

Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century. — Kate Williams

Agnes Smedley also knows what the century knows: that we become what is done to us. — Vivian Gornick

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone

My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century. — Philip Treacy

She stole a glance at Kevin Kimberly...No other man of her acquaintance ever boasted so smooth a shave or as shapely a haircut. — Nancy Paschal

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. — James Fenton

Dimka wondered what it must be like, to love a woman for half a century and then lose her, suddenly, between one beat of the heart and the next. — Ken Follett

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again. — Lynne Truss

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century. — William Carey

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. — Leslie Fiedler

You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope. — Stephenie Meyer

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. — S.J Perelman

In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder]. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history. — Matthew Stewart

In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. — Bertrand Russell

It was just a magnificent, India-ink night of moonlit clouds below and glimpses of the shimmering sea. What century are you in? he longed to ask her. — Suzanne Stroh

Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society. — George Orwell

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in. — Johnny Vegas

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century. — Robert D. Kaplan

Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt. — Jeannette Walls

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century. — Bertrand Piccard

Hey, Lenzi ... my offer from a century ago still stands. If Alden doesn't treat you right, I'm here for you in any capacity, if you know what I mean. — Mary Lindsey

Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up. — William J. Clinton

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve. — Charles Frazier

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century — Winston Churchill

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans — Dean Cavanagh

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Jeanne de Chantal, seventeenth-century founder of the Order of the Visitation, said, No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself. — Shane Claiborne

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. — Walter Pater

This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got. — Manil Suri

Kovaly experienced the two supreme horrors of what Hannah Arendt called this terrible century. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example. — Thomas Browne

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th. — Tina Brown

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century. — Connie Willis

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. — John Updike

Are human reactions what they've always been, or has a century or more of movies influenced our response to every stimulus — Dean Koontz

You receive in return what you plant with your words and your deeds. — Bethanee Epifani

Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead. — William H Gass

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century! — Mary Augusta Ward

It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers" ... (p. 58) — Jerry Z. Muller

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.' — Neale Donald Walsch

We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever. — Moby

If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. — Douglas Sirk

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