Quotes of: Twentieth-century Keyword

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

Jay Inslee

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

Jack Welch

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.

Stephen Bayley

The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.

Douglas Coupland

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.

Emmeline Pankhurst

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

Rene Cassin

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

Carlos Fuentes

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

Constance Baker Motley

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

Joe Biden

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.

John Bracken

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

David Trimble

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Edward Bond

Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable anymore.

Edward Luck

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

Gabriel Lippmann

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

George C. Williams

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

John Lothrop Motley

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Updike

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

Julian Fellowes

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

Jurgen Habermas

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

Conan O'Brien