Century Quotes - Page 33

• Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Jobs, Order

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• I'm lucky enough to have a kid with me who is actually really intellectually up with what's going on in the world and actually puts his money where his mouth is and goes and does something about it; he goes and talks about it. It livens you up a bit and it brings you into the 21st Century.

  Ray Winstone

  Kids, Mouths, Doe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

  Hortense Calisher

  Time, Ends, Faster

  Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

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• [Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Effort, Taste, Periods

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• People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

  Celia Green

  Children, People, Marrying

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Issues, People, Adequate

  Aung San Suu Kyi, University of Oxford. Refugee Studies Programme (1993). “Towards a true refuge”

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• Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Causes, Kind

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.47, South End Press

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• The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Dream, Past, Cities

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.132, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Paris, Consistency, Style

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Children, War, Lying

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• We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

  Barack Obama

  Challenges, Bureaucracy, 21st Century

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• was revolution much more than one fast kick forward in the long process called evolution? We condemened the 'cost' of revolution; but was it higher than the cost over centuries in backward, underdeveloped communities, which still covered two-thirds of the earth and which still could not guarantee their populations daily bread?

  Ella Winter

  Two, Long, Community

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• The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

  Ilka Chase

  Insecure, Agency, Today

  Ilka Chase (1942). “Past Imperfect”

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• Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

  Eleanor Clark

  Rome, Impossible, Turns

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest countries. Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody's lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Country, Technology, Europe

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• Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Work, Thinking, Squirrels

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• the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Political, Poor Nations, Rich

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• somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  School, History, Moral

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• Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

  Storm Jameson

  Wall, Humanity, Language

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.24, A&C Black

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• Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Cash, Tailors, Hats

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• some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Glasses, Years, Office

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• For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Country, Writing, Data

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• Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!

  Wanda Landowska

  Music, Blessed, Reading

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• State are not made, nor patched; they grow;
  Grow slow through centuries of pain,
  And grow correctly in the main;
  But only grow by certain laws,
  Of certain bits in certain jaws.

  John Masefield

  Pain, Government, Law

  John Masefield (1925). “Poems by John Masefield”

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• There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Wrestling, Men, Careers

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