Quotes of: Nineteenth-century Keyword

I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.

Claire Tomalin

I hope for some sort of peace—but I fear that machines are ahead of morals by some centuries and when morals catch up there'll be no reason for any of it.

Harry S. Truman

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

James Buchan

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

John Berger

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

John Sherman Cooper

When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.

David Novak

For years, I have worked diligently to develop and implement a 21st century manufacturing strategy that will create jobs in the new clean energy economy.

Debbie Stabenow

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

Elliott Abrams

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

E. L. Doctorow

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Bram Stoker

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

Charles Bukowski

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

Gary Hamel

I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.

Geri Halliwell

The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

George William Russell

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

Helen Dunmore

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.

Howard Hodgkin

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

John Masefield

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

Josh McDowell

The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.

John Shelby Spong

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

John Sladek

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

Julien Torma