The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around. . . But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free. '
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.
Yes, you have been away a very long time. ' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.
A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
I am confident that the next century will be better than this one.
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming
The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.
I am a person of the 18th century.
At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent
I'd share a pic if the digital camera battery wasn't as flat as 17th century Earth.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of life. . .
The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation, trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.
FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.