#century

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. ↗

— Whitaker Chambers

#twentieth-century #life

Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#truth #turn-of-the-century-texas #life

...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead. ↗

— William H. Gass

#literary-criticism #the-recognitions #twentieth-century #art

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#history #holocaust #i #live #lived

In the last century, everybody was singing lower. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#everybody #last #lower #singing

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West. ↗

— Dave Barry

#century #concept #europeans #fifteenth #fifteenth century

I am a person of the 18th century. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#am #century #i #i am #person

In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them. ↗

— Michael Behe

#accurate #anatomy #astounded #century #deliver

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

#close #disappear #enforced #helplessly #horizon

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. ↗

— John Bruton

#century #creation #enjoyed #europe #half