Century Quotes - Page 7

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.

Hey, any team can have a bad century.

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.