If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in…

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many…

— Dalai Lama

“I’m not sure I know what ‘simple-hearted’ means,” I said haughtily. “When there’s no deceit or malice in your heart. Most of us have…

— Gail Godwin

“When your wondering what to say, or how you look... just remember... she is already out with you. That means, she said yes, when…

— Will Smith

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribebale, what it is or what it means can never be said.

— George Santayana

Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're asking the…

— Neil Gaiman

“who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are going to…

— Orson Scott Card

“A simple acceptance of what comes to us, regarding it as neither bad nor good. “Werde, der du bist, as he would have it,”…

— Kate Atkinson

“Nothing, not even dictionaries, can tell you what anything means," he said. "The reality of things is just sad, for the most part.”

— Tom Rachman

This means nothing,” she said. “Less than nothing,” he lied. “I’ll hate myself later.” “I hate myself now.

— Gena Showalter

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

— Alan Paton

What if miliseconds influence centuries?

— Robert Cowley

These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's…

— Robert Charles Wilson

Truth takes no account of centuries.

— William Wordsworth

The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

— Theodore Zeldin