Centuries Quotes

950 Centuries quotes by 728 unique authors

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries… — Simone Weil
There were centuries when civilization had no theater. — Orson Welles
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in… — H.G. Wells
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. — Virginia Woolf
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. — Emile Zola
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from… — Martin Filler
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You… — Dallas Willard
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of… — Willa Cather
I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all… — Charles Bukowski
We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told,… — David Eddings
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices… — Neal A. Maxwell
For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come. — George Bernard Shaw
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their… — Thomas Jefferson
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many… — Marcel Proust
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the… — Isaiah Berlin
It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the… — Alexandra Ripley
You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught… — Gustave Flaubert
To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is… — Soren Kierkegaard
John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of… — Ayn Rand
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it… — Tom Robbins
Trees for example, carry the memory of rainfal. In their rings we read ancient weather - storms, sunlight and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries.… — Anne Michaels
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old… — Clarence Day
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill. — Bram Stoker

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