“Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they themselves don't realize it. That's because it doesn't take an Architect to build a metal building. You just order them out of a catalog - comes with a bunch of guys who put it together in a couple of days, maybe a week. And there you go - you're all set to go into business - just slap a sign out front.” DreamTogetherGuyOrderRealizingWeekModernCenturyFrontsBuildingCoupleArchitectureBunchMetalsArchitectSlap Author:David Byrne
“What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.” YearsFirstsHumansProblemTurnsNamesTermRealizingCommonStepsOur LivesCenturyMovementSixFaultsMotherhoodHuman LifeFortyFirst StepsEightyExpectancyLife Expectancy Author:Betty Friedan
“When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis.” MightLastsReadingRealizingWrittenCenturyEmotionalDespairAnxietyGuiltProfoundOneselfInsightContemporaryPsychologicalAnalysisResentmentHostilityAccompanyDynamicsRepressedEmotional Power Book:The Discovery of Being Source: The Discovery of Being
“The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.” MenPhilosophyLyingReligionJesusNamesBlackChristRealizingChristianityGreaterCenturyCrimeCivilizationGunJesus ChristWesternPossessionDoctrineContradictionContinentsOverlookedWestern CivilizationPeace And LoveCaptivatedPhilosophy Love Author:Bessie Head
“Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades.” ThinkingWayHumansMayHas BeensRealizingCenturyRevolutionMedicineDecadesInevitableGenes Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.” IfsWorldNeedsWarRealizingHistoryCenturyCivilizationFoundationSavedTreasureSecureWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiStableWorld War IDecayInheritanceBarbarismSubmergedIf ThenLiving Fully Author:Johan Huizinga
“The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. That seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. Literary modernism grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself?...a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller.” TryingPersonsDoeBookMomentsStoriesSeemsRealizingPerfectCasesHappenedCenturyGrewOrdinaryAccountsRegardCleverNakedAdamStoryteller20th CenturyGenesisModernismAdam And EveAllegoryFigsBook Of GenesisClever Person Author:Philip Pullman
“As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.” WayEndsPlayLawSidesRealizingLinesDealsCenturyColdMurderFixedStringsTheftMarbleAttorneyArcsUnchangeableEngravedCold Blooded Author:Dean Koontz
“Over time I began to realize that the level of cinema criticism in the last part of XX century in the United States was pretty low. The institution itself is not what it's supposed to be, and I realized that I didn't need to take that seriously.” NeedsStatesLastsRealizingLevelsUnitedUnited StatesCenturyLowsCriticismInstitutionsI RealizedSupposed To BeCinema Author:George Lucas
“Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers.” PeopleThinkingTurnsRealizingRichCenturyRapperRich PeopleEccentric Author:Riki Lindhome
“I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere.” MenEndsChristRealizingChurchCenturyMen And WomenRaisedChainsGloriousSomedayMinistry Book:Billy Graham in Quotes Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.” PeopleWayArtistStuffRealizingCenturyDepthFairyShallow20th CenturyDisservice Author:Brian Froud
“I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us television, radio, microwaves, gave us the Internet, lasers, transistors, computers - all of that from physics.” LastsRealizingCenturyTelevisionInternetComputerRadioPhysicsLasersMicrowavesTransistors Author:Michio Kaku
“I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of it to write about Margaret Cavendish. It took me a long time to realize that I just wanted to write a book about her. Years.” WritingYearsLongBookWould BeWantedRealizingCenturyDesignLong TimeGardenGarden Design Author:Danielle Dutton