Quotes of: Century Keyword

The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man who loves surrenders his freedom, whether his passion be the love of a woman, the love of a cause, or the love of God. . . Hence: "...

Peace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and in the 18th and 19th century, nationalism was often a force for classical liberalism!). It’s all a kind of reactionary tribalism (another “ism” ...

Jonah Goldberg

Prince Humperdinck: You truly love each other? Then you might have been truly happy! No couple in a century has that chance, no matter what the storybooks say. And so I think no man in a century will suffer as greatly as you will [Throws the lever on...

The Princess Bride

I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.

The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

I reflected wearily that it was not easy to be a Woman in these stirring times. I said it then and I say it now: it just isn’t our century.

The Dud Avocado

If You believe in yourself you can reach everything you want.

Dutch Graphic Design: A Century

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

Dracula

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

The Dispossessed

WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

Flaubert's Parrot

The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.

The Gift of Asher Lev

...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

Go idea machine on your doubts.

Become An Idea Machine: Because Ideas Are The Currency Of The 21st Century

What character with any sense of aesthetics desires a cradle-to-grave account of himself? That’s so passé, so nineteenth-century.

Beginner's Luke

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.

Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

Isaac D'Israeli

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

Ralph Peters

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Walter Pater

Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.

Martin Filler

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

James Wolcott