Top 100 Quotes About The Century
#1. THRILLING NARRATIVES OF MUTINY, MURDER AND PIRACY, A WEIRD SERIES OF Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster, FROM THE EARLIEST PART OF THE CENTURY TO THE PRESENT TIME, WITH ACCOUNTS OF Providential Escapes AND HEART-RENDING FATALITIES.
Anonymous
#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. 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
#4. I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer.
Mitt Romney
#5. Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter.
Bernard Bailyn
#6. The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.
Narendra Modi
#7. I hope you were right," he whispered. "I hope there's beauty in my asymmetry."
"You weren't a nuisance," he continued, his words growing louder in the cold, snowy silence. "You were the Northern Dancer, sire of the century, the superest of all racehorses.
David Arnold
#8. Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last!
What a task
to ask
of anything, or anyone,
yet it is ours,
and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.
Mary Oliver
#9. Peace will not wipe out the memory of the massacres it has committed ... And on this last day of the century, I promise Israel that it will see more suicide attacks, for we will write our history with blood,
Hassan Nasrallah
#10. I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.
Tim Tebow
#11. It causes the world great indignation that the question of God and his revelation could be taken so seriously, as seriously as it was taken by the teachers and synods of the ancient church, and by Lutherans, Reformed, and Catholics in the century of the Reformation.
Hermann Sasse
#13. The universities of the 21st century are going to be the smokestacks of the century.
Gordon Gee
#14. If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.
Nellie McKay
#15. During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
Isaac Asimov
#16. I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.
Ron Chernow
#17. At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be a footnote compared to us presiding over the largest loss of biodiversity since a meteor hit the planet sixty-five million years ago.
Louie Psihoyos
#18. My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds its greatness in its expression of the human spirit, and, to me, this can't be reduced to a contest.
Bennie Wallace
#19. I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'
P. J. O'Rourke
#20. I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a filmmaker and somehow I found myself at the turn of the century. I used lost film as an excuse to express myself.
Guy Maddin
#21. Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#22. Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.
Paul Lafargue
#23. Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.
George Crumb
#24. Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century
the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp
the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.
Walt Disney
#25. I believe that the ten billion people expected to be present at the end of the century will enjoy a far better quality of life if we conserve half of the planet for nature than if we consume nature entirely.
Edward O. Wilson
#26. I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats.
Emma Brockes
#27. The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.
Lester R. Brown
#28. The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had become legendary figures in the public imagination-vast, overshadowing behemoths whose colossal power seemed to reach everywhere.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#29. I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.
Max F. Perutz
#30. There have always been hucksters, cranks and populists who see a brief rise in American politics, going back to William Jennings Bryan at the turn of the century. The body politic has a way of expelling these invaders.
Joseph Rago
#31. One of the many lessons to emerge from Hurricane Katrina is that Americans are not accustomed to seeing unattended bodies on the streets of a major city." Understatement of the century, Doctor.
Caitlin Doughty
#32. I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
Neil Armstrong
#33. Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.
David G. Hartwell
#34. The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.
Walter Cronkite
#35. And the art was in every corner and wall ... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember ...
Santiago Martinez Delgado
#36. Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.
Peter Garrett
#37. It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.
Brian Sutton-Smith
#38. Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul.
He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.
Janet Fitch
#39. The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.
Stephane Hessel
#40. If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
Marshall McLuhan
#41. The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple ... the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#42. We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind ... the underworld of the century's imaginings.
Brian Aldiss
#43. America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.
Guillermo Del Toro
#44. This (Coley's toxins) is really an effective treatment and it an OUTRAGEOUS crime of the century that we at MSK were able to cure cancer a 100 years ago that they can't cure today.
Ralph W. Moss
#45. Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Benito Mussolini
#46. There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#47. Agnes Smedley also knows what the century knows: that we become what is done to us.
Vivian Gornick
#48. It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.
Ron Paul
#49. The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.
Vladimir Putin
#50. Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.
Albert Einstein
#51. Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.
Connie Willis
#52. If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
Barry Humphries
#53. Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
Edmund White
#54. Organic is probably the biggest scam of the century. For those of you unfamiliar with it, organic is a grocery term for more expensive.
Jim Gaffigan
#55. I should have been honored to have been part of the best pickpocket incident of the century, but instead I was just mad.
Embee
#56. Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.
Chauncey Depew
#57. The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until quite late in the century. Large-scale natural resource development and processing was the name of the game.
Charles R. Morris
#59. I've always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century, and I'm really fascinated by that whole time period.
Juliet Landau
#60. In the course of the century, so many individual decisions are made that no single one of them is ever critical. Each decision is lost in the torrent of judgments that make up a century.
George Friedman
#61. We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
Abdoulaye Wade
#62. 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
#63. In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#64. My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.
Bobby Clarke
#65. A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.
Noam Chomsky
#66. The problem that will doubtless interest future historians is not so much the presence, in the twentieth century, of mass political alienation, but the passivity with which the citizenry accepted that condition. It may well become known as the century of sophisticated deference.
Lawrence Goodwyn
#67. At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
Edward Bond
#68. We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.
Polykarp Kusch
#69. The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse.
Martin Gardner
#70. It was that time of the century when the idea of a gentleman had almost become myth. The Great War had concussed the world. The unbearable news of sixteen million deaths rolled off the great metal drums of the newspapers. Europe was a crucible of bones.
Colum McCann
#71. I am the man of the century. No one will ever forget me.
Pedro
#72. 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
#73. Simplicity survives the changes of fashion. Women of chic are wearing now dresses they bought from me in 1936. Fit the century, forget the year.
Valentina
#74. How old are you?" Isa gasped. Okay, so she hadn't gotten around to asking some things.
"One hundred and forty-three," Chance supplied, giving her a quick kiss. "But don't worry, darling. I don't feel a day over the century mark.
Jeaniene Frost
#75. Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.
Fred Astaire
#76. No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.
David Goodstein
#77. The United States will be forced to fight wars of policy during the balance of the century. This is inevitable, since the world is seething with disaffection and revolt, which, however justified and merited, plays into Communist hands, and swings the world balance ever their way.
T.R. Fehrenbach
#78. My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.
Bonnie Bedelia
#79. Three great problems of the century - the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light - are unsolved;
Victor Hugo
#80. If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.
Benito Mussolini
#81. The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.
Chaim Potok
#82. I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
Penelope Lively
#83. find of the century." The number of scientists and archeologists muttered together, all glancing at the object at the center of the crowd. It almost looked like as if a strange animal had landed in
Pika KID
#84. I like to take folks back to the turn of the century when people said 'gas cars can never replace horses because you can feed horses at your house, you get along with them, they're nice.'
Chris Paine
#85. What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.
Kevin Rudd
#86. The half-life between story of the century and not even the story of the day is quicker than you would ever guess.
John Scalzi
#87. Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
Bob Newhart
#88. Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.
Aaron Klug
#89. Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.
George F. Will
#90. Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low- and medium-tech equipment; ... fully half of us are alive today because of the improvements.
Richard Rhodes
#91. The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
Claude Debussy
#92. The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.
David Byrne
#93. 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
#94. Movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.
Jennifer Stone
#95. It was my first visit to the scene of the crime
a high, dingy, narrow-chested house, prim, formal, and solid, like the century which gave it birth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#96. I'll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any year of the century. I don't know what comes after century.
Shaquille O'Neal
#97. In the century of jazz we are likely to overlook the emergence of the waltz as a hot and explosive human expression that broke through the formal feudal barriers of courtly and choral dance styles.
Marshall McLuhan
#98. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#99. The Segue Institute was the preeminent research organization for all things paranormal and it was housed in a haunted, renovated turn of-the-century hotel. The place was supposedly loaded with what the scientists there called Shadow, capital S, a scary word for magic. Dark magic.
Erin Kellison
#100. As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and, if current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years.
Elizabeth Kolbert
