Century Quotes - Page 20

Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality.

I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for all who came after him, regardless of one's chosen instrument.

We have to rethink how to teach financial education in the 21st century.

One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.

You could say that Trump is the 21st century version of Pat Buchanan. Protectionist, anti-immigrant.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.

This century is going to be a very dangerous century.

I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges.

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make our contribution to the world in the coming century.

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

I am confident that the next century will be better than this one.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.

I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.