Quotes of: Century Keyword

Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.

Charles Duhigg

Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.

Helen Thompson

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

Dennis Prager

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Brian Ferneyhough

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

Barry McGuigan

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Boyle Roche

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

Henri Bergson

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

Neale Donald Walsch

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Samuel P. Huntington

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

Virginia Postrel

Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.

Ezekiel Emanuel

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

Clare Balding

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

Mitch McConnell

For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.

Chiang Kai-shek

All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.

Lindsay Pearce

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

Ron Kind

I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.

Tom Lenk

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

Gordon Getty

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Peter Lewis Allen