1910s Quotes

#1. I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.

Vanessa Paradis

#2. The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.

Thomas Piketty

#3. In New York in the 1910s, William B. Coley, James Ewing, and Ernest Codman had treated bone sarcomas with a mixture of bacterial toxins - the so-called Coley's toxin.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#4. It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.

Kevin Kwan

#5. Sometimes mercy is not a kindness and pity is not love.

Karen Maitland

#6. Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#7. Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.

Tom Coburn

#8. I travel whenever I can - every couple of years if it is possible. I always say I'm not to write books on the countries I visit, but somehow I always seem to use material I can found in these countries in my books.

Ursula Torday

#9. She stores so many of his words in her head that she feels as if she has become nothing more than a book he has written.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#10. Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

Daniel De Leon