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It was not clear how it would end. In nineteenth century novels, they get married. In twentieth century novels, they get divorced. Can you have an ending in which they do neither? (Century Quotes)
Earlier 18th century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street (Century Quotes)
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss (Century Quotes)
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century (Century Quotes)
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war (Century Quotes)
You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping (Century Quotes)
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, nietzshean dogma influenced each of them (Century Quotes)
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness (Century Quotes)
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing (Century Quotes)
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death (Century Quotes)
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols (Century Quotes)
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! (Century Quotes)
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century (Century Quotes)
Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam (Century Quotes)
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed (Century Quotes)
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace (Century Quotes)
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land (Century Quotes)
Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war (Century Quotes)
Women have always been courageous. They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights (Century Quotes)
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead (Century Quotes)
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family (Century Quotes)
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch (Century Quotes)
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century (Century Quotes)
The income tax is a twentieth century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed (Century Quotes)
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth - and eighteenth century masters (Century Quotes)
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty first century (Century Quotes)
The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God (Century Quotes)
You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse (Century Quotes)
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to it's purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac (Century Quotes)
Who of you appreciate the galling humiliation, the refinements of degradation, to which women... Are subject, in this the last half of the nineteenth century? How many of you have ever read even the laws concerning them that now disgrace your statute books? In cruelty and tyranny, they are not surpassed by any slave holding code in the Southern States (Century Quotes)