Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened to be the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century. I would like to think that I could emulate at least his modesty - his refusal to exaggerate his perception of himself and his place in the larger scheme of things - even if my work never compares with his in its importance.
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.
The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.
Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.
In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.
If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen a convergence of the arrows of explanation, like the convergence of meridians toward the North Pole.
When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.
Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.
In the last century, everybody was singing lower.
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.
I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Degas liked it not only because it provided an accurate record, but because the snapshot showed him a means of escape from the classical rules of design. Through it he learnt to make a composition without the use of formal symmetry.
By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army.
U. S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.
