Centuries Quotes

950 Centuries quotes by 728 unique authors

Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps.… — N. T. Wright
Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries. — Jacob Zuma
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly… — Allison Pearson
Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings. — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass. — Pat Paulsen
In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat… — Pope Pius XII
A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever. — William George Jordan
If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades. — Freeman Dyson
If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only… — Stephen Hawking
The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the… — Emmeline Pankhurst
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.… — Jacques Attali
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas… — Abu Bakar Bashir
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past… — Gary Becker
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries. — Betty Dodson
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I… — Maggie Grace
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing… — Eric Alterman
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in… — Antonia Fraser
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts… — Erwin Chargaff
Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and… — Evelyn Waugh
France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century. — Raoul Dufy
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. — Brian Ferneyhough
For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our… — Virgil Goode
Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries. — Russel Honore

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