Quotes of: Century Keyword

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.

Decline and Fall

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

Free-Thought on the American Frontier

The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.

The Hundred-Year House

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

Blast from the Past

Twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and three cents in coins, from six centuries.

Beautiful Redemption

To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.

Circling: 1978-1987

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

Christopher Dawson

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

Robert Kiyosaki

What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperial...

Shimon Peres

Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.

James E. Faust

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

Stanley Schmidt

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

Kenneth Frampton

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

Hayao Miyazaki

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

John Guare

I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

Maggie Grace

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Mary Augusta Ward

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

Aforismi geniali di William Shakespeare.

With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art.

Virginia Postrel

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

Wassily Kandinsky

The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.

The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy