Century Quotes - Page 39

• I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

  Gregory Maguire

  Classical Music, Late, Adore

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• Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages.

  George Reisman

  Dark, Intelligent, Space

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• In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.

  Robert Fogel

  Past, Three, World

  "The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700". Book by Roderick Floud,‎ Robert W. Fogel,‎ Bernard Harris,‎ Sok Chul Hong, 2011.

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• Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.

  Robert Fogel

  Children, Adults, May

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• The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.

  Robert Fogel

  Technology, Simple, Two

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• Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too surprised at anything. They will have been through it all before in fictional form, and will not be too paralyzed with astonishment to try to cope with contingencies as they arise.

  L. Sprague de Camp

  Class, Trying, World

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• My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

  Joanna Trollope

  Character, Views, Voice

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• Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

  Helen Vendler

  Literature, Glory, Modern

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• The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

  Alain Aspect

  Development, World, Mechanic

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• The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.

  Tom Brokaw

  Epic, Cities, America

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• The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Years, Three, Half

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• It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Dresses, Wonder, Closets

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• The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

  Peter Drucker

  Important, Knowledge Workers, Needs

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• For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

  Maureen Dowd

  Two, Feds, Takeovers

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• What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

  Frank Crowninshield

  America, France, Mary

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• I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.

  Barry Goldwater

  White, House, Style

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• The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Art, Years, Two

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• We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage accepts our modifications gracefully. Marriage adapts, evolves and (in a manner that I find miraculous and kind of inspiring) somehow keeps chugging along.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Home, Generations, Kind

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• My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and are no longer appearing on the stage and they are no longer writing, that their lifetime of acknowledgement by the general reading public is not very long... There were many people in the 19th century who were equally famous people who gave working man's lectures, supporters of Darwin, we as scholars know their names but the general public never heard of them.

  Richard Lewontin

  Reading, Writing, Men

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Thinking, Rights, Sight

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done that sort of stuff so it can be done. But if you really start with love your enemies, and if you look at the tradition of the first Christian centuries, nobody ever seems to suggest well if they come after us to persecute us, is it alright to kill a few? Defensively, of course.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Christian, Love You, Enemy

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people have these tools, the more people will learn how to use them, it's another argument I would argue for, personally, for art's education. Because there are kids who aren't that literate in screen language and they've got to know how people select shots, how people edit audio, how people combine things to make what they see on the screen. It would be like the 15th century or the 16th century in Germany, and somebody amends a printing press and you don't know how to read and write.

  Murray Horwitz

  Art, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness and our conscience have led us to come together. That's the big issue of the 21st century.

  William J. Clinton

  America, Issues, Humanity

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not believe in romantic love at the time, thinking it a human construct, an invention of fourteenth century Italian poets. I was as unprepared for love as I had been for goodness and beauty. Suddenly, my heart seemed swollen, too large for my chest.

  Philip Yancey

  Fall, Believe, Heart

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.

  Robert Dallek

  Views, Accomplishment, President

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