Quotes of: Nineteenth-century Keyword

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Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.

The Secret History

The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I admit that I have submitted to it all; worse, I have loved with all my heart.

Monsieur De Phocas

Your gifted purpose here on earth is to live out your days being and bringing your best self...

My Quarter-of-a-Century Life Lessons: Building a Foundation for Success

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

The Metalogicon of John of Salsibury: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium

At the dawn of the second decade of the Twenty First Century, masculinity has been rendered so self-conscious in our mediated, mirrored world that even ‘regular guys’ are apparently just a fashion fad – this season’s accessory.

Metrosexy

For the first time in his centuries of life, doing the right thing didn’t seem like the right thing to do.

Love Me to Death

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

The Last Dragonslayer

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love." Napoleon Hill

Law of Success: The 21st-Century Edition

The white lily stands for purity. Artists for centuries have pictured the angel Gabriel coming to the virgin Mary with a spray of lillies in his hand, to announce that she is to be the mother of the Turks.

Last Flight Out

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams.

The Myth of the Twentieth Century

Here too, as in the Commune almost a century earlier, the struggle was articulated around the hope that 'the antithesis between the everyday and the Festival--whether of labour or of leisure--will no longer be a basis for society.

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.

School Can Wait

I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.

Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion

The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, "Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you," which is also sound advice today!

Paris: The Collected Traveler

My love grew wings—and flapped away from me. I watched as it flew right into the arms deal of the century. Only the Russians would be crazy enough to use something as dangerous as love in a war.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

How’s your dance card look?” “Double-check your century Jules. No dance cards.” Jules shrugged & gave me his most flirtatious smile.

Until I Die

What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a group devoid of social responsibilities because their ties to any one place had been so attenuated.

Vintage Didion

Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century