It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the... →
Lawrence Summers
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
Wayne Swan
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the... →
John Templeton
I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
Valentina Tereshkova
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Nikola Tesla
I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.
Twyla Tharp
Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.
Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David Thoreau
One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back... →
Andrew Tobias
Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
Claire Tomalin