Quotes About Century

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

The nature of education fundamentally has not changed in a century - and I say this as someone whose parents are both teachers.

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.

Sugar planting was the oil business of the eighteenth century, and Saint-Domingue was the Ancien Regime's Wild West frontier, where sons of impoverished noble families could strike it rich.

A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.

Believe it or not, cricket was my first love. I would genuinely have swapped the dream of a winning goal at Wembley for a century against the Australians at Lord's.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

Even almost a century after her death, Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress whose extraordinary personality, flamboyant life and passionate nature became a legend in her own lifetime, remains the byword among most people as the supreme theatrical star.

on and off, for almost a century.

Modern historians regularly use the word empire to describe this extension of Athenian power during the fifth century

Only two months after the battle he wrote a sad description of his own fate: "I spend my time building castles in the air, but in the end all of them, and I, blow away in the end." It is an epitaph that might serve all the empire builders of the violent century.

light of the two centuries of church statistics we have examined, it is obvious that a group can add members and still fail to keep pace with the growth of the population and of other religious firms. The mainline denominations do not qualify as rockets that suddenly ran out of fuel in the sixties-their market shares were falling in the forties and fifties too, and throughout the century

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

Today he who wants to pass as a Socialist, and at the same would declare war on Marxian doctrine, the most stupendous product of the human mind in the century, must begin with involuntary esteem for Marx.

love as if you're riding through the storm of the century. You surf the waves, ride the crests, sail through moonlit waters with ice in your rigging… but you love each other as you go. You love each other as if every day is the only day….

The word is Latin, from monastic ritual dating back to the sixteenth century: adsum. I am here.

like the horse in the old ballads, which Romanticism found in the medieval castle and left in the streets of our own century. The Romanticists rode the poor best until he was so nearly dead that he finally lay down in the gutter, where the realists found him, his flesh eaten away by sores and worms, and, out of pity, carried him away to their books.

a quadrilha francesa é a negação da dança, como o vestuário moderno é a negação da graça, e ambos são filhos deste século, que é a negação de tudo.

La herencia cultural importa; y una vez que hemos visto el sorprendente efecto de cosas tales como la distancia al poder o el hecho de poder expresarse en un cuarto de segundo en lugar de invertir un tercio o una mitad, no es difícil preguntarse qué otras herencias culturales tendrán un impacto sobre nuestras tareas intelectuales del siglo XXI.