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There is one fault that I must find
With the twentieth century.
And I'll put it in a couple of words;
Too adventury.
What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony
If anyone's gotony. -- Ogden Nash
Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. -- Arthur C. Clarke
This young century will be liberty's century. -- George W. Bush
Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow. -- Dean Koontz
I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals. -- N. T. Wright
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The great man ... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes. -- Stephen Leacock
We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The 21st century can and must be an American century. It began with terror, war, and economic calamity. It is our duty to steer it onto the path of freedom, peace, and prosperity. -- Mitt Romney
These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it. -- Elizabeth Kostova
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. -- John Berger
I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future. -- Fm-2030
The twentieth century belongs to Canada. -- Wilfrid Laurier
I am confident that the next century will be better than this one. -- Dalai Lama
Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections. -- Gary Krist
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st. -- Robert Darnton
The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last. -- H.g.wells
Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once. -- Rory Bremner
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. -- Ambrose Bierce
I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort. -- Dalai Lama Xiv
Each decade absolutizes its own fashions of thought and action without the least pause and consideration of the fact that a decade later those very fashions and ideas will be buried in the dustbin of history as one turns to a new decade. -- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come. -- Itzhak Perlman
This century is going to be a very dangerous century. -- Duncan Hunter
who had gone missing centuries -- Regan Claire
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. -- Antonio Porchia
I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love. -- Meg Rosoff
I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us. -- Penelope Lively
The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story. -- Mary Ritter Beard
I just can't believe all the things I did that decade. -- Dick Schaap
I like living in the 20th century ... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes. -- Jeffrey Smart
The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated. -- Peter Baynham
What if miliseconds influence centuries? -- Robert Cowley
As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity. -- Douglas Coupland
The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as the century of superficiality. -- Billy Graham
There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries. -- Mary Catherwood
The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. -- James Howard Kunstler
I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family. -- Bill Watterson
This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all. It's called Centuryitis, and it has turned me into a man. Oh, what will mamma think when she sees me?!
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz -- Karen Quan
I can scarcely believe the cruelty of the last century. It staggers the soul. -- Douglas Preston
How old are you?" Isa gasped. Okay, so she hadn't gotten around to asking some things.
"One hundred and forty-three," Chance supplied, giving her a quick kiss. "But don't worry, darling. I don't feel a day over the century mark. -- Jeaniene Frost
It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did. -- Douglas Coupland
You will experience 100 transformative moments every year. -- Bill Jensen
hundred years. The end of a place Shan had come -- Eliot Pattison
I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time. -- Coco Chanel
The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life -- Pope Leo Xiii
It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature. -- Frederick Rolfe
The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote. -- Anna Howard Shaw
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again. -- A.e. Housman
The eighteenth Century thought itself to be the age of reason; the nineteenth century thought itself to be the age of common sense while the twentieth century can only think of itself as the age of uncommon nonsense. -- G.k. Chesterton
Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance. -- Henry Miller
You have only to creep into a secluded corner or into a crocodile, to shut your eyes, and you immediately devise a perfect millennium for mankind. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century. -- Bill Henson
Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before ... -- F Scott Fitzgerald
If you can read in the 21st century you own the world. -- Stephen King
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space. -- Wilson Greatbatch
Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists. -- Friedrich Schiller
Our new millennium began, and it seemed a little bit possible--though surely if we examined the thought too closely, it would evaporate--that a brighter time might be ahead; we have, after all, the round, clean slate of the new number, the row of zeros after the initial digit in 2000. -- Mark Doty
Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth. -- Julie Andrews Edwards
The time of the third millennium is the time when the people of God will walk, covered by
God's glory, performing great wonders and miracles. -- Sunday Adelaja
Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. -- Dave Anderson
The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes. -- Clive Barker
People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately. -- Woodrow Wilson
The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe. -- Narendra Modi
A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next. -- Neale Donald Walsch
At the end of the 19th century, people were filled with thoughts of future hope, but at the end of the 20th century, it was fear, hate, and mistrust. -- Joel T. Mcgrath
Compared to prehistoric times, ninety is the new forty. -- Anne Kreamer
Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen -- John Kennedy Toole
The beginning of a new millennium is to consider and reorganize our life -- Sunday Adelaja
In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven. -- Victor Hugo
This is the century of fear. -- Albert Camus
twenty-five hundred a -- Scott Pratt
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
That night lasted a thousand years. -- Rick Yancey
At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century. -- William Gibson
The third millennium is the third day in the calendar of God's time. -- Sunday Adelaja
I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940. -- Edmund Phelps
The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Last century's magic is this year's science. -- Cherie Priest
In a moment we lost our minds hereand lay our spirits down.Today we lived a thousand years,all we have is now. -- Edward Kowalczyk
It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people. -- Terry Riley
10 Print "The 80s are fab!" 20 Goto 10 Run -- Steven Howlett
I'd like to live to a hundred -- Muhammad Ali
Science is our century's art. -- Horace Freeland Judson
It's foolish to talk of an "Asian century" or an "emerging market century" because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete. -- Ian Bremmer
On the three-hundredth anniversary of my birth, I finally managed to conquer the world. -- Brandon Sanderson
Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future. -- Brian Eno
The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted. -- Chaim Potok
The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value. -- Peter Robinson
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth. -- Eric Hoffer
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty. -- John Lanchester
One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st. -- Clement Attlee
Genius leaps centuries forward. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly. -- Warren Buffett
The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history. -- Robin G. Collingwood
Those who got the twentieth century right, whether in anticipation [..] or as contemporary observations, had to be able to imagine a world for which there was no precedent. -- Tony Judt
The nineties, ecstatic decade! -- Zadie Smith
