Centuries Quotes

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The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer… — Wendy Lesser
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. — Terri Windling
Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name… — Alan Watts
The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it. — Ben Elton
For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really often mean to… — Joan D. Chittister
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own. — W. S. Gilbert
Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America,… — Noah Webster
Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at another… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We… — Ashok Gangadean
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago? — Alan Lightman
For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his… — Kwame Nkrumah
Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying… — Robert Kiyosaki
Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age… — Carl Sagan
Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the… — Arthur C. Clarke
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in… — Simone Weil
Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round… — William Butler Yeats
Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above… — John Nelson Darby
When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie… — George MacDonald
Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros… — Pope Francis
In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you are… — Rajneesh
Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina… — Rajneesh
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries — Grant Morrison

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