I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.
It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.
Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.
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.
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)
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.
I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.
