Century Quotes - Page 14

For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that we all have buddha-nature - so what's the difference?

If I could only live another century!

If we're to have a future in the 21st century, we'll want to be able to say, "Now what was the 20th century like in the United States of America, the most powerful of all countries of that century? What was it like to be an ordinary person?"

Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on.

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

I feel like I’ve known you forever. Like I’ve held you in my heart for centuries. (Talon)

That which doesn’t kill us just requires a few centuries of therapy. (Caleb) Yeah, and usually a lot of Tylenol. (Nick)

There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man.

Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century.

The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.

The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

Milliseconds influence centuries.

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.