Top 100 First Century Sayings
#1. When judging modernity, it is all too tempting to take the viewpoint of a twenty-first-century middle-class Westerner. We must not forget the viewpoints of a nineteenth-century Welsh coal miner, Chinese opium addict or Tasmanian Aborigine. Truganini is no less important than Homer Simpson.
Yuval Noah Harari
#2. The nineteenth century is called the century of hygiene, and the twentieth is the century of medicine. The twenty-first century may be the century of behavioral change. Changing everyday, long-term behaviors
how we exercise, what we eat
is the key to adding years and quality to our lives.
Michael Stein
#3. The modern preacher who devotes his energies to church administration, to counseling, and to preaching sermons to people, most of whom have already obeyed the Gospel, has no close parallel in the church of the first century.
Jack P. Lewis
#4. Our normal is so subnormal that normal seems radical. To the first-century disciples, normal and radical were synonyms. We've turned them into antonyms.
Mark Batterson
#5. No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#7. Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.
Howard G. Hendricks
#8. According to the laws of early twenty-first century cinema, anyone speaking Japanese is in a horror movie. If
Seth Grahame-Smith
#9. Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm."
"You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?
David Mitchell
#10. We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.
Jewell Jackson McCabe
#11. The first decade of the twenty-first century was a crazy bookend to the twentieth, opening with a second Pearl Harbor and ending with a second Great Crash, with a second Vietnam wedged in between. Now we seem caught in the coils of a second Great Depression.
David Frum
#12. Eighty years ago, Woodrow Wilson took America into the twentieth century with a challenge to make the world safe for democracy. As we enter the twenty-first century, our task is to make democracy safe for the world.
Fareed Zakaria
#13. In the Twenty-first century we are going to confront a climate shock worse than any mankind has ever experienced.
Guillaume Faye
#14. In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Nikola Tesla
#15. But he's genuine twenty-first-century and only faking patience.
Skyler White
#16. It's the twenty-first century. Arriving to find a bunch of old dudes in brown robes would be equally weird.
Kendare Blake
#17. The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus
in other words, by the end of the first century at the latest
though most scholars would put most of them earlier than that.
N. T. Wright
#18. To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.
David Treuer
#19. It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.
Robert D. Kaplan
#20. In our twenty first century social media world, people are so eager to have likes from friend on social media for what they do; their writings, images and videos but they are not so eager to have they like of God for what they do or refuse to do!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#21. In the course of the twenty-first century what may be called the "capital wage" could be added to the labor wage and the social wage, so that middle-class Americans - not merely an affluent minority - might derive income from three sources rather than just two.
Michael Lind
#22. Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
Nancy Gibbs
#23. The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.
Nikola Tesla
#24. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Walter Isaacson
#25. Neuron is to Consciousness, what D.N.A. is to Life. Thus, Biology of Mind is to the twenty-first century, what Biology of Life was to the twentieth century.
Abhijit Naskar
#26. Exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.
Phyllis Chesler
#27. I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
Leonard Susskind
#28. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D.
Timothy Leary
#29. Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.
Martin O'Malley
#30. If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.
James Gleick
#31. What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.
Eric Liu
#32. You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
George Lakoff
#33. May be the question we need to ask isn't whether there's any fresh twenty first century sin ... but whether the people who define sin have changed, because of the times.
Jodi Picoult
#34. The time is well past for the church, particularly the Western church, to rethink and reimagine what it means to be the church in the twenty-first century.
Richard R. Dunn
#35. He sniffed his armpits just to see if they were rank, but they weren't. Let's hear it for twenty-first century deodorant.
Lisa Marie Rice
#36. In the first century A.D., Pliny estimated that the average Roman citizen consumed only 25 grams of salt a day. The modern American consumes even less if the salt content of packaged food is not included.
Mark Kurlansky
#37. The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.
Jonathan Sacks
#38. America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.
Michael Martin Hammer
#39. Ultimately, despite Atkins's wealth of practical knowledge in helping people lose weight and possibly avoid heart disease, he would not get a serious hearing from academic researchers until the twenty-first century.
Nina Teicholz
#40. As Jesus, the Word, is of divine origin as well as a thoroughly human figure of first-century Palestine, so is the Bible of ultimately divine origin yet also thoroughly a product of its time.
Peter Enns
#41. The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.
Andy Stanley
#42. His joy was a release of Paul's conversion, not the heavy backslapping practical-joking humor of the Victorians, nor the cynical satire or the flippancy of the twenty first century mass media, just the gift of not taking himself or his adversaries too seriously.
John Charles Pollock
#43. Superstition is something that someone else believes in but you do not. Many of our own beliefs seem superstitious to others, and undoubtedly many of the accepted truths of the twenty-first century will be considered superstitions by the twenty-second century.
James Peoples
#44. The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.
Edward O. Wilson
#45. This is essentially why gold is still valuable in the twenty-first century. If gathered together, all the gold ever mined would fit inside a large town house.
Mark Miodownik
#46. If it is true that Jesus ultimately fits no known pattern within the first century,51 it is more or less bound to be true that he fits none within the twentieth.
N. T. Wright
#47. Smokers are the lepers of the twenty-first century.
Jim Stevens
#48. As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.
Mahnaz Afkhami
#49. Mark my word, the day is coming when it's going to cost to live for Jesus Christ. We are, more and more, a minority, and that's exactly what it was like in the first century.
Billy Graham
#50. Presumably, God could have written these books any way He wanted. And if He wanted them to be understood in the spirit of twenty-first-century secular rationality, He could have left out all those bits about stoning people to death for adultery or witchcraft.
Sam Harris
#51. It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.
Charlotte Whitton
#52. Of course she'll move away from me, and likely from here, because she is my daughter, because she is a daughter in the twenty-first century. But we can be her fall-back plan, and her stash of memories. Her deep and wide past.
Liz Stephens
#53. It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#54. I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.
Sarah Polley
#55. From the vantage of the early twenty-first century, it might be more accurate to say, with no disrespect, that Arthur Conan Doyle originated Sherlock Holmes. The rest of us, obviously, aren't yet finished creating him.
Zach Dundas
#56. It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive."
"Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car.
Janet Evanovich
#57. The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
Tania Bruguera
#58. In the twenty-first century, we face a new set of problems that Taylor could not have imagined. Our productive capacity greatly exceeds our ability to know what to build. Although
Eric Ries
#59. Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.
Martin Rees
#60. The greatest challenge on the Web in the twenty-first century is to connect with your target audience in a way that enriches both them and you.
David Amerland
#61. This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.
Manil Suri
#62. My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost.
Shinzo Abe
#63. But there's still this combination of governmental ineptitude, shortsightedness, stinginess, corruption, and neglect that affected the Continentals before, during, and after Valley Forge that twenty-first-century Americans are not entirely unfamiliar with. While
Sarah Vowell
#64. The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.
Kip S. Thorne
#65. In the twenty-first century, we use a nineteenth-century school model with twentieth-century values. There's clearly something wrong with this picture.
Zander Sherman
#66. There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is one world into 200 artificially created entities we call 'nations' and armed to apprehend or kill anyone who crosses a boundary.
Howard Zinn
#67. The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.
Klaus Schwab
#68. Those living in palaces have always had different agendas to those living in shacks, and that is unlikely to change in the twenty-first century.
Yuval Noah Harari
#69. The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches.
Erin Kelly
#70. All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,
Greg Bear
#71. Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.
Ken Robinson
#72. For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking.
Ernest Cline
#73. Rockets, in general, had come on in leaps and bounds since the market had become competitive in the early twenty-first century. Initially, Spacex and Virgin grabbed the headlines, but when Amazon and Trader Joe's joined in, the prices plummeted. So
Ian Thompson
#74. Art in the twenty-first century may come to constitute a form of mediation between human and post-human consciousness, just as in past cultures it has been used to mediate between mankind and the gods.
Max More
#75. Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.
Robert Hass
#76. Twenty-first century communications technology rendering the planet not so much global village as global schoolroom full of sniggering male virgins and bitchy female hypocrites.
Christopher Brookmyre
#77. Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.
Oliver DeMille
#78. Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute."
"Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century, Women don't need the white knight routine anymore. I can fight my own battles.
Michael Buckley
#79. It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
Freeman Dyson
#80. I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.
Walter Isaacson
#81. This is perhaps the greatest lesson that interdependence has to offer us about right livelihood (and right living in general) in the twenty-first century: no person, and no profession, comes out completely clean, ever. On the other hand, no one is inherently defiled.
Ethan Nichtern
#82. he mentally calculated the brand, age, and capacity of the machine in front of him, Slade gave a delighted giggle. Early twenty-first century technology was so buggy, especially systems using a Windows environment - which this clearly was.
Sara King
#83. No alcohol, Riley." She nodded at the screen. "How are you liking the twenty-first century?"
Riley burped. "The Take That are most melodic. And God bless Harry Potter is all I can say. If not for him, all of London would have been consumed by the dark arts.
Eoin Colfer
#84. Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.
Meg Jay
#85. The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography.
Jeffery Deaver
#86. To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit
investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.
William J. Clinton
#87. There is something wrong with this world." She stood like she was making a speech. "Something very wrong when it's the twenty-first century and this type of elitist travesty is still being perpetuated.
Alex Flinn
#88. For women with children, the new handmade economy offers the tantalizing possibility of flexible, part-time, at home work
the "egg money" of the twenty-first century.
Emily Matchar
#89. Ghosts, unicorns, and gods. That seemed much less of a fantasy than the twenty-first century.
Rick Riordan
#90. This is the twenty-first century. The oceans are rising. Mad dictators have access to nuclear weapons. Corporatism and the dumbing down of the media have destroyed the very foundations of democracy. Anyone who isn't afraid is a moron." There
Tommy Wallach
#91. Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
Cynthia Heimel
#92. Few of us are equipped to cope with the complexity and dazzling variety of twenty-first-century existence.
John Brunner
#93. You have got to stop with the severed body parts, he (Lynx) shouted as he righted himself. This is the twenty-first century, man. You don't have to do this barbaric shit. Buy a gun, put a bullet in them. Pop, pop, bad man goes down. Done.
Shay Rucker
#94. But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.
Barack Obama
#95. Some parents live more like reclusive monks than like first-century Christians who were famous for their love for and service within their cities, cities that in many cases were more overtly wicked than cities found in modern-day America.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#96. Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.
Larissa Ione
#97. Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.
Robin Sloan
#98. Cigarettes are out. Social media is in. It's the drug of the twenty-first century. (At least people who smoke stand outside together.) Like
Simon Sinek
#99. Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.
Eric Hobsbawm
#100. Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.
Howard Rheingold
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