Quotes About Century

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.

Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Visitors come and go.Daily I read tea leaves for signsof the approaching century:a raven perched on a crossa sword piercing a cloud--A Victorian Life

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

Their activities reached a peak in the early years of the nineteenth century, when a community of around forty thousand pirates with some four hundred junks dominated the coastal waters and attacked any merchant vessels which strayed into the area. From 1807 these pirates were led by a remarkable woman called Mrs. Cheng, a former prostitute from Canton.

For at least a century before the 1914 war, Europeans had regarded it as axiomatic that someday the Middle East would be occupied by one or more of the Great Powers. Their great fear was that disputes about their respective shares might lead the European powers to fight ruinous wars against one another.

It has been estimated that the total of military and civilian casualties in all of Europe's domestic and international conflicts in the 100 years between 1815 and 1915 was no greater than a single day's combat losses in any of the great battles of 1916.

In fact, the terms 'equality' and 'inequality' only began to enter common currency in the early seventeenth century, under the influence of natural law theory. And natural law theory, in turn, arose largely in the course of debates about the moral and legal implications of Europe's discoveries in the New World.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

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

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.