Centuries Quotes

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I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to think that this… — Delphine de Vigan
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen… — Jon Stewart
At one o’clock, the ever-logical Right-Eye Grand Steward woke up to discover that during his sleep his left-eyed counterpart had executed three of his advisors… — Frances Hardinge
There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes… — Kevin Hearne
The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story,… — Karen Marie Moning
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay… — Rene Descartes
There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives… — Robert Jordan
Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains… — Anton Chekhov
He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals.… — John Green
Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the… — Robert Jordan
I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls… — Isaac Marion
Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally. — Nalini Singh
Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us — Charles Bukowski
the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries. — Charles Bukowski
Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He… — George W Truett
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. — William Jewett Tucker
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus… — Howard Gardner
But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of… — Rajneesh
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that:… — Ronald Reagan
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have… — James A. Garfield
People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter...… — Baron d'Holbach
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th. — Lance Morrow
Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research. — I. Bernard Cohen
We do not understand much of anything, from... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms of a bacterial… — Lewis Thomas

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