#century

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#capital #century #city #decades #fascinated

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#century #hard #i #me #music

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#certainly #civilization #decline #dominant #into

For those of us who have lived abroad and seen our nation in a highly competitive 21st century, and kind of see where this world is going - unless we are able to strengthen our core, we're going to see the end of the American century. And that is totally unacceptable. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#able #abroad #american #american century #century

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#change #convulsive #demographic #huge #leaves

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. ↗

— Neal Barnard

#accidents #american #automobile #beef #century

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#century #into #music #now #tonal

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. ↗

— James Buchan

#better #better off #century #couple #ever

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. ↗

— John le Carre

#education #german #having #largely #literature

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#anything #century #condemned #draw #each