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Only those of us live for centuries that decided not to live in their short lives. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

Until that hungry black god eats me up. Now I spend the centuries circling into it like a penny in one of those coin spirals at an arcade; — Exurb1a

One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries. — Gail Godwin

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

Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries. — Richard Engel

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people. — Pico Iyer

Even the hooligan was probably invented in China centuries before we thought of him. — Saki

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

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. — Victor Hugo

Art can have connections over many centuries or thousands of years. — Wolfgang Laib

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries. — Peter Thiel

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. — James A. Garfield

We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade. — G.G. Collins

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

He was tough as an antique ivory figurine, which has withstood the viscissitudes of centuries and can accept more. — Pat Frank

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

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries. — David Hockney

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

Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open. — Jo Walton

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 day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. — Nikola Tesla

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

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. — Leo Rosten

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

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign. — Thor Heyerdahl

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

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom. — Gary Saul Morson

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

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important. — Nadeem Aslam

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

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries. — Barack Obama

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it. — Bill Nye

The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath. — Padraig Pearse

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

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries. — Jacob Zuma

In a gourd that had been handed down for three centuries, a flower that would fade in a morning. — Yasunari Kawabata

A Greek has twenty-five centuries of painful history to keep is dreams in check, but there's nothing more dangerous than to give an American hope. — Ian Caldwell

The dead always outnumber the living. These spirits have waited centuries, unable to express their anger. Now I have given them bodies of earth. — Rick Riordan

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.

After ... all the philosophy and science that we've laboured on for centuries, it's becoming very hard to find a story we can buy. — Steve Hagen

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

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full. — Boyle Roche

Hacking in its pure form stretched back centuries. It wasn't restricted to a single medium. It was more than a methodology. It was an ethos. — Robin Wasserman