Best Century Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.”

World Trying Form Certain Values Century Style Narrative Conform 19th Century Experiencing The World

Author:Mark Leyner

“If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.”

Ifs Stills Lasts Social Century Building Products

Author:Max Levchin

“I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!”

Years Kind Girl Century Crush Shy 19th Century

Author:Natalie Merchant

“I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.”

Bigs Lasts Used Literature Boys Century Great Love Dostoyevsky

Author:Norman MacCaig

“If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.”

Ifs Ends Century Cry India 18th Century Rallying Rallying Cry

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.”

Thinking Way Today Pain Lasts Century Changed Amount Treats Patient Cancer Enormous Relief Providing Physicians Psychics Solace Pain Relief Treating Patients

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?”

“For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.”

People Has Beens States Law Century

Author:Nursultan Nazarbayev

“In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.”

Firsts Century Theory Property Proof Related Chemicals Quarters Composition Compounds Nineteenth Century Interdependence Chemical Compounds

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors a century ago and obtain direct visual experience of phenomena in a dimension higher than our own.”

Firsts Reason Dream Today Interest Achieve Century Higher Majors First Time Direct Logic Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Visuals Dimensions Ancestor Ontology

Author:Thomas Banchoff

“The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In both cases, the increased level of abstraction demands greater effort on the part of anyone who wants to understand the work.”

Want Art Levels Effort Cases Greater Century Demand Logic Mathematics Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Trends Abstraction Ontology

Author:Keith Devlin

“The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves...In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light.”

Littles Book Light Teaching Century Materials Source Infinite Jew Doctrine Former Latter Emanate

Author:Albert Pike

“Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.”

Has Beens States Feelings Form Century Europe Deliberate Nineteenth Century

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.”

Firsts Christian Jesus Century Birth Setting Settings Celebrate Holiday Easter Bethlehem Jesus Birth

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.”

Century Evolution Catholic Theologian Positively Proposal Nineteenth Century Evangelical

Author:Arthur Peacocke

“Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.”

World Process Natural Century Creator Debate Emphasis Accord Nineteenth Century

Book:The Palace of Glory: God's World and Science

Source: The Palace of Glory: God's World and Science

“When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.”

Thinking Doe Term Religious Century Hypocrisy Victorian Slang Puritanism

Book:Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

Source: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

“In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.”

World States Nations Religious Vision Century Example Minorities Nationalism 20th Century Turkeys Turkish Muslim World Armenians Kurds

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.”

Century News 21st Century Persistent Bad News Reluctance Tics

Author:Frank Rich

“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.”

Process Century Building Europe 21st Century 20th Century

Author:Jean-Pierre Raffarin

“But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.”

Believe Stills Poor Century Hero Including 20th Century Southerner Ordinariness Useful Things

Author:John Shelton Reed

“The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.”

Government Strong Challenges Century Capable Fairs Meetings Missions Australia 21st Century New Challenges

Author:Kevin Rudd

“When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.”

People Knows Writing Firsts Stories Hands Situation Century Originals Familiar Nineteenth Century

Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews

Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews

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

Stills Century India China 21st Century

Author:Steven Rattner

“I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality...”

Thinking Men Way Values Century Fashion Personality Men And Women 21st Century Affordable

Author:Stuart Rose

“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.”

Knows Firsts Wells Stills Ends Character Past Mystery Century First Time Speed Posts Flash Rolling Our Thoughts Bent Tweet Paragraph Know It All 140 Character Rolling Along

Author:Ali Smith

“I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.”

People Way Stories Would Be Language Challenges Pieces Century Periods Incredibles 17th Century

Author:Amy Smart

“It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.”

Knows Century Structure Chemicals Atoms Solar System

Author:Johannes Stark

“But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.”

Middle Century Particular Rhythm

Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."”

“But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.”

Men Should Writing Has Beens Two Book Different Use Able Courses Language Written Century Letters Originals Titles Theme Copies Apes Imitator Use Of Language

Book:Planet of the Apes

Source: Planet of the Apes

“The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.”

Roles Audience Century Developing Performers 21st Century Orchestra

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.”

Ifs Want Looks Two Century Stupid Republican Platforms Governors Romney

Author:Antonio Villaraigosa

“Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.”

Today Christian Violence Century Gay Doctors Murder Slavery Theology Abortion Justify Doctor Who Crusades Latent Christian Theology

Author:Amy Waldman

“When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.”

Firsts Character Use Would Be Wanted America Speak Language Felt Century Comic Ties Frank 20th Century Idiom

Author:Jim Woodring

“I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.”

People World War Ends Would Be Challenges Wonder Economy Century Approach Meetings War Of The Worlds World War Ii Capitalist World War I 21st Century

Author:Sanford I. Weill

“You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.”

Knows I Can Country Moments Past Four Century Ethics Puritan

Author:James Young

“I believe the world benefits from American leadership. I believe this next century should be an American century.”

World Should Believe Next I Believe Century Benefits American Leadership

Author:Mitt Romney

“Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.”

Art Sides Audience Failing Century Contemporary Elites Evident Contemporary Art

Author:John Walford

“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”

Source: Lectures on Calvinism

“Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.”

Truth Certain Numbers Century Months Truth Is Gold Fruit Bounds Dear Immortal Decay Dear Friend Falsity

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.”

President Century Football Bills Clinton 20th Century Touch Football

Author:Al Franken

“When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.”

Way Technology Written Century Constitution Evolve Founders New Technology

Author:Al Franken

“Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.”

World Earth Christianity Century Planets India Population China Surface Twentieth Century Fractions Persia

Author:Kenneth Scott Latourette

“Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.”

Knows Long Process Creative Century Huge Obvious Burden Creative Process Protected Inability Copyright

Book:Free Culture

Source: Free Culture

“Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.”

Given Century Events Israel Inevitable 20th Century 19th Century Zionism

Author:Mike Leigh

“The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.”

Century Projects Instruments Chemicals 19th Century Predecessors

Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.”

People Ifs Believe Enjoy Challenges Century Be You 21st Century Stereotype Pathetic

Author:Louise Mensch

“In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.”

Thinking Jobs Social Teacher Our Lives Century Workers 21st Century Flexibility Social Worker Foster Care

Author:Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

“Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.”

Wells Stills Fun Brain Records Alive Century Intense Having Fun Pace 21st Century Vintage I Am Alive

Author:Tony Visconti

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