Century Quotes - Page 9

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

This young century will be liberty's century.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

I am ashamed of my century for being so entertaining but I have to smile.

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.