Centuries Quotes

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A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield… — Virginia Woolf
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries… — Annie Besant
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new… — Ralph Adams Cram
Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the… — Russell Baker
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. — Claude Levi-Strauss
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. — Thomas Bulfinch
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries. — George Berkeley
For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the… — Mac Thornberry
For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our… — George Lakoff
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. — Richard Dawkins
Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries. — Andy Warhol
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. — David Antin
The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red… — Richard Allen
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough… — Hermann Weyl
The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural power - died… — Ayn Rand
I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to… — Carl Jung
For centuries, humans have said to horses, 'You do what I tell you or I'll hurt you.' Humans still say that to each other --… — Monty Roberts
There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India discovered it a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought… — Reuben Archer Torrey
Bless, O Lord of the centuries and the millennia, the daily work by which men and women provide bread for themselves and their loved ones.… — Pope John Paul II
There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When… — David Abram
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading… — C.S. Lewis
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of… — Michael Atiyah
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid… — Howard Zinn

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