Centuries Quotes
950 Centuries quotes by 728 unique authors
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Shamefully, all of us have wanted revenge on someone at some point for something. I've lived since before man and buffalo roamed this small planet.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—†“So has the plague.
— Karen Chance
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslightedâ€, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.…
— Adrienne Rich
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Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its…
— Gail Carriger
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth…
— John Stuart Mill
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A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows…
— Rick Riordan
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If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New…
— James A. Baldwin
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For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the…
— Anais Nin
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At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales…
— Patricia A. McKillip
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Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion…
— Michel Foucault
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
— Bram Stoker
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The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection…
— David Levithan
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And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye…
— Charles Bukowski
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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