Top 100 Twenty First Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Some of its proponents like to say that string theory is a piece of twenty-first- century mathematics that has, by our good fortune, fallen into our hands in the twentieth century.
Lee Smolin
#3. 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
#4. 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
#6. A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only.
The Twenty-first Voyage
Stanislaw Lem
#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. deaf. Unruffled by Herbert Jemson's breach of allegiance, because he had not heard it, Mr. Stone rose and walked to the pulpit with Bible in hand. He opened it and said, "My text for today is taken from the twenty-first
Harper Lee
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. May 27, 2013 It's hard not to think about Chris on his twenty-first birthday.
Cassia Leo
#14. 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
#15. In the Twenty-first century we are going to confront a climate shock worse than any mankind has ever experienced.
Guillaume Faye
#16. In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Nikola Tesla
#17. But he's genuine twenty-first-century and only faking patience.
Skyler White
#18. It's the twenty-first century. Arriving to find a bunch of old dudes in brown robes would be equally weird.
Kendare Blake
#19. 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
#20. My text for today is taken from the twenty-first chapter of Isaiah, verse six: For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." Jean
Harper Lee
#21. It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.
Robert D. Kaplan
#22. 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
#23. If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
Douglas Rushkoff
#24. 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
#25. For every person who will say yes, there are twenty who will say no. For a positive response you must find the twenty-first person.
Chuck Reaves
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
Benigno Aquino III
#30. 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
#31. Exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.
Phyllis Chesler
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Nobody treating us like kids. For once, we gt to be equals, not babies. Could use more of that in the twenty-first. Age doesn't make grown-ups.
Joss Whedon
#36. 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
#37. You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
George Lakoff
#38. The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.
Larry Niven
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. As the twentieth century was about politics, which is to say survival, the twenty-first is about God, which is to say oblivion, a subject his country is profoundly unprepared to contemplate.
Steve Erickson
#43. The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.
Jonathan Sacks
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. It was the twenty-first of June and Bitsy announced a Summer Solstice party.
Julia Fierro
#47. 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
#48. Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).
Alan Sokal
#49. You know who you remind me of? The kid cop in Lethal Weapon 3. You know, the one who says, 'it's my twenty-first birthday today', and right away you know he's dead meat?
Jennifer Crusie
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. You belong to me now, and I'll be back to get yo after your twenty-first birthday, when the time is right. No one else can touch you until then and I'll always be around to make sure.
Michelle A. Valentine
#54. Smokers are the lepers of the twenty-first century.
Jim Stevens
#55. 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
#56. I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.
Sarah Polley
#57. 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
#58. It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive."
"Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car.
Janet Evanovich
#59. The murky world of terrorism is more relevant than ever today: terrorist organizations, whether Bolshevik at the beginning of the twentieth century or Jihadi at the start of the twenty-first, have much in common.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#60. The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
Tania Bruguera
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.
Manil Suri
#65. 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
#66. The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.
Kip S. Thorne
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches.
Erin Kelly
#72. Here was a manifestation of a huge, historic British folly, repeated over many centuries including the twenty-first: the adoption of gesture strategy, committing small forces as an earnest of good intentions, heedless of their gross inadequacy for the military purpose at hand.
Max Hastings
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.
Robert Hass
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Ghosts, unicorns, and gods. That seemed much less of a fantasy than the twenty-first century.
Rick Riordan
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.
Meg Jay
#91. The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography.
Jeffery Deaver
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#97. She'd invited Oskan to the Yule Feast. Or rather, she'd sent a royal command ordering his presence on the twenty-first day of Icemas.
Stuart Hill
#98. Few of us are equipped to cope with the complexity and dazzling variety of twenty-first-century existence.
John Brunner
#99. Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.
Charles W. Pickering
#100. 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
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