Century Quotes - Page 38

• If the 21st Century is the era of knowledge and of knowledgeable human-force, then, to extol this force, Gujarat must form a strong bond with books.

  Narendra Modi

  Strong, Book, Empowerment

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• There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

  Walter Lippmann

  Travel, Discovery, Soul

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• The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century.

  Laurence Kotlikoff

  Running, Country, Past

  "US 'could be going bankrupt'" by Edmund Conway, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 14, 2006.

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• The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

  Joan M. Drury

  Writing, Reaching, Dilemma

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• If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.

  Takeshi Kaneshiro

  Memories, Lasts, Ifs

  "Fictional character: He Zhiwu, Cop 223". "Chungking Express", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

  David Gerrold

  Moon, Technology, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

  Paul Begala

  Mind, Finest

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• The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.

  Chris Burden

  Stress, Cities, Car

  "Metropolis II: A Kinetic Sculpture That Circulates 100,000 Miniature Cars Every Hour", www.thisiscolossal.com. March 3, 2014.

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• The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - "Is this all?"

  Betty Friedan

  Years, Wife, House

  "The Feminine Mystique". Book by Betty Friedan. Chapter 1: "The Problem That Has No Name", opening lines, 1963.

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• The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.

  J. G. Ballard

  Stars, Energy, Orbit

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• Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Elderly, Twenties, Would Be

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Rendezvous With Rama”, p.6, RosettaBooks

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• There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.' That's a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Art, Rocks, Dragons

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2010: Odyssey Two”, p.110, RosettaBooks

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• The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Latin, America, United States

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• The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Creative, Cameras, Fantastic

  "Carlos Fuentes Trades His Pen for Television" by Alan Riding, www.nytimes.com. December 31, 1990.

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• Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Interesting, Example, Castles

  "Carlos Ruiz Zafón's top 10 20th-century gothic novels". www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

  Rick Moody

  Boston, Historical, Trying

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• There must be no bloodshed, no violence unless it is defensive, no coercion! We must do it our way and our way alone! To do otherwise is to betray centuries of hardship and struggle.Above all else Kyfho. Forget Kyfho in your pursuit of victory over the enemy, and you will become the enemy...worse than the enemy because he doesn't know he is capable of anything better.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Struggle, Enemy, Victory

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• Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Book, Broken, Volume

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• After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other

  Kathy Acker

  Choices, Heaven, Gathering

  Kathy Acker (1994). “My Mother: Demonology”, p.13, Grove Press

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• The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.

  Vladimir Putin

  Unique, Museums, India

  "For Russia, deepening friendship with India is a top foreign policy priority". www.thehindu.com. December 24, 2012.

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• I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century. (The inability to forecast exactly which one - whether plague, famine, the poisoning of the oceans, drastic climatic change, or some disaster entirely unforeseen - is hardly grounds for complacency.)

  John Holdren

  War, Ocean, Optimistic

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• For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

  Albert Camus

  Greatness, Echoes, Humanity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.276, Vintage

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• They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Ignorant, Western Culture

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign.

  Umberto Eco

  Simple, Illustration, Cities

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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