Top 1200 Quarter Of A Century Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

What I mean by context is worldview - having the ancient Israelite or first-century Jew in your head as you read. How would an ancient Israelite or first-century Jew read the Bible - what would they be thinking in terms of its meaning? The truth is that if we put one of those people into a small group Bible study and asked them what they thought about a given passage meant, their answer would be quite a bit different in many cases than anything the average Christian would think. They belonged to the world that produced the Bible, which is the context the Bible needs to be understood by.

For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia's Empty Quarter. Now that I have, I can sheepishly join the chorus of those who revere the book as one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing.

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

You can buy turmeric from any supermarket - or get it raw from Asian shops and grate a quarter of an inch of the root into your food. There's evidence to suggest raw turmeric may have greater anti-inflammatory effects, while cooked turmeric offers better DNA protection.

I always say that there are manufactured coaches and natural coaches. I am one of the natural ones. I do not have to sit there and watch videos for hours. I look at what I have to watch, and in a quarter of an hour, I understand what I can understand.

Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.

When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great measure, from those embarrassments and depressions which I see afflicting many an author who waits for a mood instead of summoning it, and is the sport, instead of the master, of his own impressions and ideas.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

I fell in love with 19th-century Russian plays.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for me to compose real Arabic scale melodies, I would need an Arabic keyboard, and I don't have one. So I had to compose Arabesque melodies.

Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century.

In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls.

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

There's this Indian fellow who worked out a cycle like the idea of stone-age, bronze-age, only he did it on an Indian one. The cycle goes from nothing until now and 20th century and then on and right around the cycle until the people are really grooving and then just sinks back into ignorance until it gets back into the beginning again. So the 20th century is a fraction of that cycle, and how many of those cycles has it done yet? It's done as many as you think and all these times it's been through exactly the same things, and it'll be this again.

For most part, the rule of thumb is pretty much you're going to race guys hard the last quarter of the race and for sure the last run of the day. You're still going to give and take until that last pit stop.

The young people today are the 21st century.

In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.

I may not have played men's football, but I've been at World Cups as a player. I know the emotions. I've been in quarter finals, a semi-final. I'd been substituted and sat on the bench watching us lose a penalty shoot-out. I know what happens, what you need when the pressure's on.

A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.

I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.

I look at my own reservation, the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota - on my reservation, one quarter of our money is spent on energy. All of that money basically goes to off-reservation vendors whether it is for electricity, or whether it is for fuel.

But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

Polygraphs have sparked a fierce debate for at least a century.

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

New York is the city of the 21st century.

In college, the line is so close that you can kind of half-heartedly shoot the ball off-balance and fading away. To shoot an NBA three, because the arc of your shot has to be a little higher, you have to be squared up and get your legs into it more, which can be tough in the fourth quarter.

I am ashamed of my century for being so entertaining but I have to smile.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

I live in the 20th century. I have copper rivets on my jeans.

The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.

Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

When you have a transportation system that the price of propellant is essentially negligible something is very wrong. If you look at any other transportation system, a car, a motorcycle, a train, an oil tanker, an airliner, you name it; about a quarter to a third of the operating cost is buying the propellant.

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.

He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black dust. He strains it and puts cane sugar in both our cups. There's something euphorically invigorating and yet filling about it. It tastes the way I imagine the Far East must taste.

It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.