Quotes About Century

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

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.

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.

A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament's legacy of inequality in the past.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

The Maze, that labyrinth of alleys called ginnels and snickets locally—tiny squares, courtyards, nooks and crannies and small warehouses that had remained unchanged since the eighteenth century.

It is not an exaggeration to identify the flight of the radical left to 'antifascism' as the most successful maneuver of language politics in the twentieth century.

It was incomprehensible to Ricky that anyone could find Milburn boring: if you watched it closely for seventy years, you saw the century at work.

I think he is the ornament of society! Oh, there is not just one role for the artist in society. He has many roles and he has a different role as society changes, and in different societies . . . He can be a seer at times, and in the eighteenth century he was the satirist, the artist stepping back and holding up the mirror to society. Moreover, I don't think the same kind of person is necessarily an artist or a poet in one century as another.

A so-called antimony war had been waged between French [Galenist] physicians and [alchemical, Paracelsian] iatrochemists since the beginning of the seventeenth century. What it lacked in bloodletting, this war made up for in bile.

In the seventeenth century Sir Walter Raleigh wrote that 'The art of magic is the art of worshipping God'.

The Civil War ceased physically in 1865," noted Thomas Beer, a chronicler of the Mauve Decade, which closed out the century, "and its political end may be reasonably expected about the year 3000.

beginning of the twentieth century), though the number of people learning the language has shown an increase in recent years. The 2001 censu

Important names in the twentieth century included constitutional lawyers and academics such as Sir Ivor Jennings, Sir Kenneth Wheare, Geoffrey Marshall, O. Hood Phillips, and E. C. S.6 Wade and in the twenty-first century include Vernon Bogdanor, Rodney Brazier, and Peter Hennessy.7

twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, it was an important influence in the politics of the nation: Tories were more likely to be Anglicans and Nonconformists, such as the Methodists, more likely to be Liberals. In significance,

But by the end of the first century there is evidence to suggest that his surviving correspondence began to be collected into a Pauline corpus, which quickly circulated among the churches—first a shorter corpus of ten letters and soon afterwards a longer one of thirteen, enlarged by the inclusion of the three Pastoral

Art, on the other hand, must be first of all "forceful." The artist, in dealing with ethical revaluations (as he naturally would, since the characteristics of the century would be as fully represented in him as in a scientist or an inventor) had to make those conflicts explicit which the scientist could leave implicit.

Forse è scoppiata, la Bomba, fuori dalla mia coscienza. Anzi, è così certamente. E la fine del Mondo è già accaduta: una cosa muta, calata nel controluce del crepuscolo. Ombra, chi opera in questa èra. Ah, sacro Novecento, regione dell'anima in cui l'Apocalisse è un vecchio evento!

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.

New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.

Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.

I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.

From when I was a young boy, I wanted to be the first person to direct a movie at 100.

He embraced compromise as a necessary element of public life, engaged his political foes in the passage of important legislation, and was willing to break with the base of his own party in order to do what he thought was right, whatever the price. Quaint, yes: But it happened, in America, only a quarter of a century ago.