#century

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#deny #ever #existed #kill #obsessed

I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#called #century #day #deal #development

I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#century #describe #either #even #governor

It's the twenty-first century. Arriving to find a bunch of old dudes in brown robes would be equally weird. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#robes #twenty-first-century #equality

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. ↗

— Ken Follett

#century #genre #literary #most #popular

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#appeared #century #china #christianity #earth

What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again. ↗

— Eric Liu

#bring #celebrate #century #create #diversity

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #century #change #dictated #historian

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#century #change #consideration #gain #i

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#advertising #any #cause #century #done