Quotes of: Eighteenth-century Keyword

For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

John Thorn

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

John Berger

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Joschka Fischer

The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of the world consisted of mere supplicants and bit players.

Martin Jacques

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

John McGahern

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

Ariel Winter

I see the last two millennia as laid out in columns, like a reverse ledger sheet. It's as if I'm standing at the top of the twenty-first century looking downwards to 2000. Future centuries float as a gauzy sheet stretching over to the left. I also se...

Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception

In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

End the Fed

If birds can fend for themselves, it means there’s hope for our tomorrow.

Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century: The Rebirth of Armageddon

It is not what we do but how we feel doing what we do that matters.

Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century: The Rebirth of Armageddon

Nationalism has little to contribute today except further suffering.

Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

The Will to Power

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Pierre Bayle

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

Leslie Fiedler

...everywhere I am is true.

The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto

Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.

John Updike

The 21st century can and must be an American century. It began with terror, war, and economic calamity. It is our duty to steer it onto the path of freedom, peace, and prosperity.

Mitt Romney

My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Chelsea Clinton

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

Robert Smithson