Century Quotes

• We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Ideas
  • Clear
  • Cases

• No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

  

  David Goodstein
  • Learn
  • Matter
  • Fuel

• There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree...their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. Grief is but a gate, and our tears a kind of key opening a place of wonder thats been locked away. Suddenly we notice a sustaining resonance between the drumming heart within our chest and the pulse rising from the ground

  

  David Abram
  • Heart
  • Grief
  • Sorrow

• The most insipid movie released so far this century.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Movie
  • Century

• Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Past
  • College
  • Intellectual

• The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Cold
  • Bigs
  • Bones

• What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Criticism
  • Wells
  • Courses

• Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me about marriage as a subject for fiction—a subject that fiction has taken on with gusto since the 19th century—is how unknowable other people’s relationships are. Even the marriages of your parents, your siblings, your closest friends always remain something of a mystery. Only in fiction can you pretend to know people completely.

  

  Nell Freudenberger
  • Friends
  • Parent
  • Sibling

• One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Religion
  • Phenomena
  • Human interests

• Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Remains
  • Deception
  • Billboards

• The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

  

  Michael Tippett
  • Time
  • Century
  • Fugue

• Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay she herself might one day have to reign. Taken together, these examples suggest that the best preparation for the job of sovereign is not to be prepared for it at all, ir not to be too well prepared for it, or for too long.

  

  David Cannadine
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Succeed

• Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

  

  Arthur Holly Compton
  • Dream
  • Joy
  • Adventure

• Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • History
  • Christianity
  • Twentieth

• Electrification was one of the most disruptive technologies ever; in the first decades of the twentieth century, it caused something close to a mass extinction in US manufacturing industries.

  

  Andrew McAfee
  • Century
  • Technologies
  • Electrification

• But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

  

  George Saintsbury
  • Century
  • Melancholy
  • Loathe

• Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

  

  David G. Hartwell
  • Science
  • Opposition
  • Characteristic

• Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the 19th century as it actually did. You can get rid of Thomas Edison or Louis Pasteur; take your pick.

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • Actually
  • Edison
  • Thomas

• Most men and women of the seventeenth century Britain still lived in a world of magic, in which God and the devil intervened daily, a world of witches, fairies, and charms. If they failed, the royal touch would cure scrofula.

  

  John Edward Christopher Hill
  • Magic
  • Century
  • Charms

• We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Century
  • Achievements
  • Forbearers

• His partitioning of the octave in the first ten bars places Varèse with Scriabin and the Schoenberg circle among the revolutionary composers whose work initiates the beginning of a new mainstream tradition in the music of our century.

  

  George Perle
  • Music
  • Tradition
  • Century

• If you go back to the 17th century, scientists generally weren't rewarded much at all for sharing discoveries, and as a result, they conducted a lot of their research very, very secretively indeed.

  

  Michael Nielsen
  • Research
  • Result
  • Scientists

• When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Congress
  • Remembered
  • Catalyst

• The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility and think about our responsibility.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • World
  • Humans
  • Humility

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