Quotes with late-twentieth-century

Quotes 261 till 280 of 325.

  • Isaac Bashevis Singer The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Barry Ritholtz The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Arnold Newman The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.
    Arnold Newman
    American photographer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Brigid Brophy The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?
    Brigid Brophy
    British novelist and critic (1929 - 1995)
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  • Carl Sandburg The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Anzia Yezierska The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Hardy The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Norman Mailer The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or smal - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • William Wordsworth The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • E. L. Doctorow The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
    E. L. Doctorow
    American writer (1931 - 2015)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Boo Weekley There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Ben Zobrist There have been nights I've stayed up late thinking about, 'What's wrong with my swing? What do I need to fix?'
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Og Mandino There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Erickson There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bob Newhart There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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