21st Century Quotes

“So many had burned opportunities in the name of postponement, believing that another opportunity will arise. They fail to seize the spur of the moment, without thinking that maybe, that could be their last chance to actualize their long nurtured dreams. Achieving your heart desires in this century requires your alertness, diligence, and overcoming the hindrances that procrastination brings.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“You know it’s the 21st Century when someone TEXTS you from the washroom to ask you to bring them a roll of toilet paper.”
― Comic Strip Mama

“Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point where you just assume that your spontaneous call to a friend will go to voicemail or an assistant, and you decide not to bother.”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

“Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is...emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty. That, today, is where it is at, and will continue to be at for a long time to come.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Overworking is the Black Plague of the 21st Century. Leave the office on time by using the time you have effectively. An executive at a Fortune 100 told me that to him, if you stay at work late, that means 'you’re slow.”
― Richie Norton

“...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're already in a new era, and it is very different from the old one. Science and the world of technology are both changing everything so quickly, even our bodies. So the original ancient culture was present here, but to no avail, at this point in history it has come to stop. It still has some effect, some kind of continuity, but it cannot analyse and reformulate things, it cannot impact things with absolute strength. The age to follow will be full of dangers. It will be full of difficulties. In all likelihood, it will not be a good future for mankind. It is even possible this new era will mean the end of mankind.”
― László Krasznahorkai, Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens: Reportage

“Why does the twenty-first century feel like this?
Like men are talking into
their favorite phonograph
& the phonograph is me
receiving their baritone: You're so exotic
Watch out, men, says my violin
I am a Royal Bengal man-eating tiger”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“She no longer lived in a world of speculation or recall and would take nothing on faith when the facts were but a few clicks away. It drove me nuts. I was sick to death of having as my dinner companions Wikipedia, About.com, IMDb, the Zagat guide, Time out New York, a hundred Tumblrs, the New York Times, and People magazine. Was there not some strange forgotten pleasure in reveling in our ignorance? Would we just be wrong?”
― Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

“I want to be a good man, a good writer."
"Be one or the other, Ernest, not both.”
― Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway

“... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.”
― George Friedman, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

“Caesar of the 21st century : I came! I saw! I bought!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“What’s the use of all these assortments of apps if you cannot share your feelings with someone?”
― Priyanka Agarwal, PiKu & ViRu

“Enjoy without injury, live without loss.”
― Amit Kalantri

“16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.”
― Bella James, The Girl Who Cried Wolf

“A man that rich couldn't be stupid. Or, Seema thought now, was that the grand fallacy of twenty-first-century America?”
― Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success

“To be or not to be, that is out of the question! I live in the 21st century.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Soon, nobody was leaving their cubicles to talk anymore, and we were either e-mailing each other random thoughts or scheduling meetings, or speaking over an instant message chat.”
― Christopher Herz, Pharmacology

“A woman is not only a man.”
― June Seong

“Never feel comfortable where you're now, get stuck, complacent, and stagnate in one spot; be always relevant, dynamic, and multi gifted. This is one of the rules of the 21st C.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“Ministry in the twenty-first century will be impacted by the example of the “sons of God.”
― David C. Alves, We're the sons of God. . .So What?: Believe God About Who You Really Are!

“No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief.”
― Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway

“Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore.”
― Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway

“When Mathematics unfold through Origamis,
when video games target Medicine and Education,
when architecture embraces nature,
when we defy gravity,
when physics dance, and dance clubs play Einstein,
when we stop playing war,
when TV starts saying something,
when we produce without wasting,
when engineering meets humanity’s primary needs,
when all of these are not just casualties,
but a standard we all live UP to:
Then we’ll know.
I’ll know:
we really live in the 21st century”
― Natasha Tsakos

“Perhaps death is just a big lie.”
― Bella James

“No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.”
― Bella James, The Girl Who Cried Wolf

“For me, all those systematic Bureaucracies of traditional schools jaded me. For me, I still I couldn’t understand why we have to have a factory style education for children living in the 21st century. Why hold them in place, asking them to read and repeat and giving them a number of tasks to finish? I still have no idea how exams and objective assessments could measure human behavior or intelligence. Is it some kind of barcoding human aptitude? Is it ethical anyway?”
― Neda Aria

“This is so far beyond laughable, it’s almost an English farce.”
― A. H. Septimius

“Be a Boss, Run a company, Own a movement but never let your heartbeat be anywhere else but home!”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel