Century Quotes - Page 18

In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations.

It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.

The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

What a lot of folks feel - and some of the other commenters have mentioned this - is that there isn't a very clear way for somebody who's working-class, who is middle-income to really get ahead in 21st century America. That implicates our education system. It also implicates our local and regional economies. And I think that folks will expect Trump to fix a lot of those things. But, of course, it's a really tall order, and it's not going to happen overnight.

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.

It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.

Television is the medium of the 20th century.

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

I have been very clear about the necessity for doing whatever is required to move the VA into the 21st century.