I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.
Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.
You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.
I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all.
Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves.
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.
In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.
You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
