Quotes of: Nineteenth-century Keyword

The trouble is Indians aren't used to being prosperous. We are more comfortable dealing with poverty- after all, poverty has been the staple here, and has been for many centuries.

Superstar India

Most critics agree with the seventeenth-century printer who gave them to the world, that the Mutabilitie Cantos seem to be part of some following book of The Faerie Queene.

Spenser's Faerie queene: An interpretation

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

Kavanagh

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

Love in the Time of Cholera

Too bad,Elizabeth. You're Stuck with me.Not for a few decades,not for centuries. You're tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They'll come from me--or no one.

Lothaire

In this century, we are about to enter interplanetary civilization. In order to survive, we need to go beyond neoclassical economics definition. We define it as interplanomics.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

The Shock of the New

It's a fact that every minute you hold a child, it triples in mass.

Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood

Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, muc...

This is a Book

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

The Pleasures of the Damned

contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.

The Polysyllabic Spree

In our century of progress and industrialization we still cannot avoid and prevent wars. I'd propose to have a separate planet where we'd insert fighting coutries to solve their business.

Pavilion of Thoughts

In our century of progress and industrialization we still cannot avoir and prevent wars. I'd propose to have a separate planet where we'd insert fighting coutries to solve their business.

Pavilion of Thoughts

Since Ireland’s independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America.

Perverse Wonderland

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

The Quest for Cosmic Justice

What I thought was a black hole turned out to be nothing more than a splatter of ink on my tie. And I assumed I was wearing the most astrological outfit of the century.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see

A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

Wizard of Ads

To a man who has spent centuries seeing to only his own needs, you are indeed high maintenance, but I'm finding I do not mind maintaining you. -Zacharel

Wicked Nights

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

The Wasted Vigil

When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at so...

Linda Sue Park