Our names were made for us in another century.
– Richard Brautigan
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- The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as -œthe century of superficiality. – Billy Graham
- Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards. – Galileo Galilei
- Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore. – Richard Brautigan
- Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness. – Richard Brautigan
- For fear you will be aloneyou do so many thingsthat aren’t you at all. – Richard Brautigan
- It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. – Ron Paul
- Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. – Martin Amis
- People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they’re carried away by the wind. – Eliza Granville
- There are various names for god- Allah, Almighty, Jesus and hundreds of other names but the one I like the most is ‘mother’. – shamsir alam
- Names didn’t matter; names were for toe tags and arrest warrants, not for revenge. – Chris Leek
- I know history. There are many names in historybut none of them are ours. – Richard Siken
- Odd names: Winter, Autumn-”they almost sound as if someone just made them up.- -”Dubb – Richard Due
- A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century. – Swami Vivekananda
- No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood. – Timothy Snyder
- All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent. – Thomas Piketty
- People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium. – George F Will
- Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception. – Ian Mortimer
- It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins. – Michael Pollan
- People whose dancing have brought joy to our hearts are born once in a century. We had MJ. – Paul Bamikole
- In the 21st century, it can’t be about who we might make, and what they might do, anymore. It has to be about who we are and what we’re going to do. – Caitlin Moran
- Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight. – Marina Tavares Dias
- Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast. – Julien Torma
- The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race’s knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation. – Maya Angelou
- Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street. – Rebecca Solnit
- Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the -˜manly’ technologies. – Morinosuke Kawaguchi
- Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place! – Carl William Brown
- Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway. – Emma Thompson
- I would choose to live a century in a dark room instead of hanging out with fake friends. – Sher E Yazdan
- If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history. – MF Moonzajer
- I’m no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I’m no animal. Don’t gimme that. I’m no animal. – JD Salinger
- A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys. – Jacob M Appel
- A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century – Charles de Montesquieu
- Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we’re all deductive geniuses. – Rob Thomas
- I make sure to always have some spinach between my teeth so people are disinclined to bother me.Survival strategies for the 21st century. – Graham Parke
- Americans in any century can be too inclined to accept consultant-crafted images of flesh-and-blood people. – Larry J Sabato
- Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next. – R N Prasher
- Galton was a world renowned anthropologist back in the nineteenth century, though he was a big overshadowed by his cousin, Charles Darwin. – Hunter Shea
- Collage is the twentieth century’s greatest innovation – Robert Motherwell
- The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government. – AE Samaan
- The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go. – Edmund de Waal