Centuries Quotes

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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. — Georges Braque
We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. — Judy Collins
We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it. — Susan Cain
Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the… — Richard Davidson
Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And… — Bart D. Ehrman
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we… — Jack Zipes
Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun… — John Muir
It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since… — John Muir
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve… — Thomas Aquinas
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government —… — Walter Cronkite
Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity,… — Rachel Carson
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those… — John Muir
Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final… — John W. Campbell
When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as… — Max Planck
Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you! — Napoleon Bonaparte
I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a lawsuit. It would do the cause much good.… — Carter G. Woodson
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. — Napoleon Bonaparte
What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power. — Frederick Lenz
While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the… — Frederick Lenz
After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people, whose… — Pope Paul VI
We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds. — Jimmy Buffett
Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked… — Laurie Garrett

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