Century Quotes - Page 12

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.

In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.

It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history.

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.

Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.

The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.

I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century

If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.