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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
How do you keep all the balls you got dancing in the air from crashing down on your fucking head, Rousseau?""Centuries of practice? — Heather R. Blair
Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.
— R. Curtis Venture
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
— Martin Heidegger
Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
But still, how could they write whole libraries about someone like Kant and hardly even notice Taylor-that prophet who could see ten centuries ahead?
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Don't worry if the name means nothing to you. Most people never hear of it at all, but it has been in existence for centuries.
— Daniel O'Malley
Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.
— William H. Calvin
Genius leaps centuries forward.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.
— Jerry Speyer
You Will Remember Me For Centuries
— Fall Out Boy
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
— Iqbal Quadir
Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
— Andre Malraux
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
— Hans Hofmann
People have worried about things for centuries, but it has never once had a positive effect on the outcome of a situation.
— Lisa M. Schab
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
— Charles Baudelaire
History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
— James A. Garfield
A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
— Thomas Carlyle
It is easier to lose friends than to win over enemies.Overnight one becomes your enemy.
Over centuries a man refuses to be your friend. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
— Eugenio Montale
We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.
— Jimmy Buffett
A writer can never know ultimate success, for his true success comes through still being read centuries after his death.
— Anthony North
How little we knew each other, though for centuries our homes had shared walls. How little we will learn, now that all we share is a border.
— Amit Majmudar
Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.
— Nalini Singh
The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.
— Abhijit Naskar
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.
— Mark Twain
Time is not the stable moving-staircase that prosemen have for centuries pretended it to be, but an unaccountable wibble-wobble
— Robert Graves
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
— Gore Vidal
Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
— Robert D. Kaplan
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.
— George Berkeley
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
— T Bone Burnett
Spain also suffered an invasion of a foreign race, but she pulled herself together and sustained herself on a war-footing for seven centuries.
— Emilia Pardo Bazan
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
— Vladimir Putin
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
— Joschka Fischer
Three centuries as a vampire and I get suckered by a pansy-ass little girl who hasn't been turned for a year.
— Susannah Sandlin
Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.
— Frank B. Kellogg
Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.
— Janet Montgomery
You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity,
— Gillian Flynn
It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.
— Hassan Blasim
China built a thirteen-thousand-mile wall several centuries before Christ, and it's still working.
— Ann Coulter
He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her..
— Tina St. John
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.
— George Perkins Marsh
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
— Brian Greene
In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept.
— Khushwant Singh
Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.
— Tom Tancredo
Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.
— Hannah Rothschild
Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.
— Rachel Caine
Here's how to live below your means and tap into the secret wealthy people have used for centuries: get so rich you can afford to.
— Steve Siebold
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.
— Maureen Dowd
The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
— Cecil B. DeMille
Whether he knew it or not, it was her Drustan, damn it all, just a month and five centuries younger.
— Karen Marie Moning
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.
— Dennis C. Blair
Strength builds empires that last for decades. Wisdom builds empires that last for centuries. Love builds empires that last forever.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Sometimes, cause and effect are centuries apart
— Rebecca Solnit
After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.
— Bill Nye
he settled down in his favorite armchair and read. Soon he was lost to all else but the rhythm of the words talking to him across the centuries.
— William Meikle
It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us.
— Peter Diamandis
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
— Alan Paton
In a gourd that had been handed down for three centuries, a flower that would fade in a morning.
— Yasunari Kawabata
For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.
— Hippolyte Taine
History ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.
— Marthe Bibesco
The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.
— Robert W. Welch Jr.
Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Ah," she said, "to come is easy and takes hours; to go is different - and may take centuries.
— Robert W. Chambers
It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.
— Mardy Grothe
A single man's imperfect conscience can never be superior to centuries of tradition.
— Philippa Gregory
Sin lies at the heart of chaotic world conditions as we now know them and as they have existed through the centuries.
— Billy Graham
Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.
— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
— Milos Forman
