Century Quotes

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

I am a person of the 18th century.

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.