Quotes of: Century Keyword

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

Mike Leigh

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

Lord Mountbatten

Patton: God, how I hate the twentieth century.

Patton

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

Polykarp Kusch

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Albert Camus

The most critical of these new religious developments for twentieth-century religious liberalism were a renewed and transformed emphasis on mystical practice and experience, the healing ministry known as mind cure, and the rise of modern psychology. ...

The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century

In this century, the Australian Century, Australia will also have an opportunity to achieve extraordinary feats. Just as the United States dominates world affairs with less than five per cent of the global population, Australia too can make a lasting...

The Australian Century

Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low- and medium-tech equipment; ... fully half of us are alive today be...

Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines Systems and the Human World

Because it is written by a nineteenth-century American, and because of its closeness to the twentieth century, The Portrait of a Lady foregoes Victorian affirmations. The price it pays, however (together with several twentieth-century novels) is that...

Reading The Victorian Novel: Detail Into Form

A hard penis has no conscience.

A Culture of Crybabies: The 21st Century World of Wimps, Whiners, and Victims

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Greg Egan

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

Rush Limbaugh

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

Niall Ferguson

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

William Weld

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Bertrand Piccard

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

Jill Lepore

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

Barbra Streisand

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Robert Louis Stevenson

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advanci...

Kenneth R. Miller

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

Jill Lepore