Quotes about Centuries

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind. Votes: 3

Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings. Votes: 3

He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.. Votes: 3

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother. Votes: 3

Centuries ago, human beings created marriage. Later, they looked to the sky and dreamt of traveling to the moon. Coincidence? Votes: 3

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise. Votes: 3

Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults. Votes: 3

Dear Sweetheart, Without you my days are endless. Days seem like weeks... Weeks feel like months... Months like years... Years like centuries... Centuries like... You get the idea. Votes: 3

I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it? Votes: 3

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist "” Then he was a Man and a Positivist. Votes: 3

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. Votes: 1

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full. Votes: 1

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. Votes: 1

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Votes: 1

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. Votes: 1

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. Votes: 1

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come. Votes: 1

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. Votes: 1

The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Votes: 1

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. Votes: 1

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. Votes: 1

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. Votes: 1

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. Votes: 1

In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties. Votes: 1

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. Votes: 1

Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous. Votes: 1

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain. Votes: 1

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans. Votes: 1

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. Votes: 1

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear. Votes: 1

Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility. Votes: 1

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. Votes: 1

I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don't see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin. Votes: 1

While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. Votes: 1

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. Votes: 1

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind? Votes: 1

Milliseconds influence centuries. Votes: 0

My hours are peaceful centuries. Votes: 0

Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you! Votes: 0

What if miliseconds influence centuries? Votes: 0

his voice was centuries old Votes: 0

Truth takes no account of centuries. Votes: 0

Women have been kicking ass for centuries. Votes: 0

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries. Votes: 0

There were centuries when civilization had no theater. Votes: 0

He loved us personally...centuries before we were born. Votes: 0

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people. Votes: 0

For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people. Votes: 0

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. Votes: 0

The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility. Votes: 0

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. Votes: 0

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought. Votes: 0

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. Votes: 0

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries. Votes: 0

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries. Votes: 0

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries Votes: 0

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason. Votes: 0

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries. Votes: 0

Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. Votes: 0

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope. Votes: 0

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries. Votes: 0

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. Votes: 0

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries. Votes: 0

Art can have connections over many centuries or thousands of years. Votes: 0

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds. Votes: 0

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. Votes: 0

Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose. Votes: 0

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries. Votes: 0

They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you. Votes: 0

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass. Votes: 0

Test centuries is one such records which doesn't look like being surpassed Votes: 0

Republican Party hasn't been black friendly over the many centuries in this country. Votes: 0

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries. Votes: 0

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries. Votes: 0

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. Votes: 0

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. Votes: 0

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom. Votes: 0

It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets. Votes: 0

No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years. Votes: 0

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries. Votes: 0

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. Votes: 0

By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought. Votes: 0

Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries! Votes: 0

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out. Votes: 0

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. Votes: 0

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries. Votes: 0

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains. Votes: 0

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance. Votes: 0

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be. Votes: 0

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries. Votes: 0

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by. Votes: 0

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. Votes: 0

Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries. But you imprison those who employ it privately." Votes: 0

Twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and three cents in coins, from six centuries. Votes: 0

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries. Votes: 0

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself." Votes: 0

Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitlers passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed. Votes: 0

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself. Votes: 0

Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed. Votes: 0

We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. Votes: 0

What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power. Votes: 0

Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries. Votes: 0

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll. Votes: 0

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it. Votes: 0

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. Votes: 0

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. Votes: 0

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem. Votes: 0

Deep is the chasm between the centuries, but by bridging it a man may return home. Votes: 0

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries. Votes: 0

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. Votes: 0

Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man. Votes: 0

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries. Votes: 0

A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries. Votes: 0

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone. Votes: 0

Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date? Votes: 0

When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries. Votes: 0

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries. Votes: 0

My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Votes: 0

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government. Votes: 0

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment. Votes: 0

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally. Votes: 0

Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization. Votes: 0

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. Votes: 0

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. Votes: 0

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries. Votes: 0

Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky. Votes: 0

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural. Votes: 0

Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately. Votes: 0

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. Votes: 0

For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin. Votes: 0

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other. Votes: 0

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. Votes: 0

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago. Votes: 0

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it. Votes: 0

December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries. Votes: 0

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts. Votes: 0

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, Votes: 0

I feel like I've known you forever. Like I've held you in my heart for centuries. (Talon) Votes: 0

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud. Votes: 0

I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big. Votes: 0

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign. Votes: 0

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer. Votes: 0

The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change. Votes: 0

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own. Votes: 0

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries. Votes: 0

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong. Votes: 0

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it. Votes: 0

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. Votes: 0

The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce. Votes: 0

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. Votes: 0

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. Votes: 0

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all. Votes: 0

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. Votes: 0

[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people. Votes: 0

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies. Votes: 0

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. Votes: 0

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open. Votes: 0

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. Votes: 0

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now. Votes: 0

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago? Votes: 0

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart. Votes: 0

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. Votes: 0

There is still a piece of my heart that belongs to you. I have cherished it all these centuries. Votes: 0

A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries. Votes: 0

We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore. Votes: 0

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague. Votes: 0

For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies. Votes: 0

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. Votes: 0

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul. Votes: 0

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music. Votes: 0

He was tough as an antique ivory figurine, which has withstood the viscissitudes of centuries and can accept more." Votes: 0

The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again. Votes: 0

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. Votes: 0

If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries. Votes: 0

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever. Votes: 0

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth Votes: 0

The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet. Votes: 0

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. Votes: 0

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. Votes: 0

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. Votes: 0

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth. Votes: 0

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves. Votes: 0

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. Votes: 0

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. Votes: 0

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. Votes: 0

True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries. Votes: 0

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed. Votes: 0

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work. Votes: 0

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics. Votes: 0

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses ... Votes: 0

We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten. Votes: 0

The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration. Votes: 0

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries. Votes: 0

This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility. Votes: 0

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. Votes: 0

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime. Votes: 0

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking. Votes: 0

Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves. Votes: 0

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. Votes: 0

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Votes: 0

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature. Votes: 0

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany. Votes: 0

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste? Votes: 0

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place. Votes: 0

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow. Votes: 0

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. Votes: 0

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries. Votes: 0

It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries. Votes: 0

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. Votes: 0

When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky Votes: 0

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men. Votes: 0

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries. Votes: 0

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries. Votes: 0

Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always. Votes: 0

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us Votes: 0

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state. Votes: 0

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch. Votes: 0

That which doesn't kill us just requires a few centuries of therapy. (Caleb) Yeah, and usually a lot of Tylenol. (Nick) Votes: 0

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years. Votes: 0

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. Votes: 0

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? Votes: 0

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries. Votes: 0

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries. Votes: 0

Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ. Votes: 0

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. Votes: 0

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment. Votes: 0

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power. Votes: 0

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. Votes: 0

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries. Votes: 0

Well, what are we waiting for? ...She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go. Votes: 0

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. Votes: 0

As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging. Votes: 0

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill. Votes: 0

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. Votes: 0

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. Votes: 0

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it. Votes: 0

Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries. Votes: 0

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades. Votes: 0

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. Votes: 0

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books. Votes: 0

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Votes: 0

For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel. Votes: 0

We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess. Votes: 0

One step, two steps, three steps... like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies. Votes: 0

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines. Votes: 0

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance. Votes: 0

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. Votes: 0

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Votes: 0

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious. Votes: 0

For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice. Votes: 0

Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'? Votes: 0

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more. Votes: 0

for centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new ... Votes: 0

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year. Votes: 0

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries. Votes: 0

I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes. Votes: 0

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery Votes: 0

We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past. Votes: 0

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. Votes: 0

So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius. Votes: 0

Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago. Votes: 0

Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton. Votes: 0

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical. Votes: 0

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left. Votes: 0

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? Votes: 0

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. Votes: 0

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this. Votes: 0

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come. Votes: 0

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. Votes: 0

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century. Votes: 0

Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life. Votes: 0

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression. Votes: 0

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame. Votes: 0

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations. Votes: 0

Amygdalin ('Laetrile')..has been employed medically for many centuries. Ancient herbal pharmacopeias recommended the bitter almond for the treatment for a variety of illnesses... Votes: 0

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. Votes: 0

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end. Votes: 0

Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. Votes: 0

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy. Votes: 0

As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago. Votes: 0

The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries. Votes: 0

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back. Votes: 0

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor. Votes: 0

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome. Votes: 0

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all. Votes: 0

What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself. Votes: 0

Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval of the ecclesiastical authorities. Votes: 0

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. Votes: 0

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 top. Votes: 0

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests. Votes: 0

As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet. Votes: 0

In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace. Votes: 0

For centuries, soup kitchens have been a way for local communities to offer a way of support, both nutritional and emotional to their less lucky neighbors. Votes: 0

There is absolutely nothing democratic about the "global arrangement" through which the West has been ruling over the rest of the world for decades and centuries. Votes: 0

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues. Votes: 0

People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries. Votes: 0

I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today. Votes: 0

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. Votes: 0

When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense. Votes: 0

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war. Votes: 0

Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind. Votes: 0

It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there. Votes: 0

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage. Votes: 0

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books. Votes: 0

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. Votes: 0

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. Votes: 0

It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical. Votes: 0

the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end. Votes: 0

Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel. Votes: 0

So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away ... Votes: 0

We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this spirit returns. Votes: 0

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries. Votes: 0

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing. Votes: 0

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together. Votes: 0

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. Votes: 0

All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it Votes: 0

Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias. Votes: 0

But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven by buried fears. Votes: 0

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.' Votes: 0

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. Votes: 0

What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus. Votes: 0

If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries! Votes: 0

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks. Votes: 0

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce. Votes: 0

Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries. Votes: 0

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing. Votes: 0

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time. Votes: 0

In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you are boiling within. Votes: 0

Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods. Votes: 0

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. Votes: 0

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution. Votes: 0

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later. Votes: 0

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Votes: 0

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind. Votes: 0

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

To a man who has spent centuries seeing to only his own needs, you are indeed high maintenance, but I'm finding I do not mind maintaining you. -Zacharel Votes: 0

So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths ... Votes: 0

The Vatican has always had a core of diplomats for centuries. It has ambassadors in 180 countries and always played a kind of behind-the-scene role in many world issues. Votes: 0

Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and travels centuries away from this place. Votes: 0

For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet. Votes: 0

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. Votes: 0

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago. Votes: 0

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see. Votes: 0

We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country. Votes: 0

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. Votes: 0

The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it. Votes: 0

Canadians were the first anti-Americans, and the best. Canadian anti-Americanism, just as the country's French-English duality, has for two centuries been the central buttress of our national identity. Votes: 0

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them. Votes: 0

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. Votes: 0

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. Votes: 0

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare. Votes: 0

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing. Votes: 0

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted. Votes: 0

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this. Votes: 0

I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues. Votes: 0

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit. Votes: 0

American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper? Votes: 0

No golfers journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries. Votes: 0

Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible. Votes: 0

No golfer's journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries. Votes: 0

There shouldn't be a separation of any religion in any way. Unfortunately, through the centuries there have been problems from the "My God is better than your God" mentality. Votes: 0

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries. Votes: 0

For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence. Votes: 0

In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, "If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you'd be a true Christian". Votes: 0

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months. Votes: 0

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 that endured for centuries. Votes: 0

The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop. Votes: 0

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language. Votes: 0

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries? Votes: 0

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas. Votes: 0

The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church. Votes: 0

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.. Votes: 0

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention. Votes: 0

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before. Votes: 0

Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person. Votes: 0

The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries. Votes: 0

For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face a crisis of great dimensions. Votes: 0

Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through. Votes: 0

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas. Votes: 0

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime. Votes: 0

The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago. Votes: 0

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions. Votes: 0

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. Votes: 0

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to. Votes: 0

Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome. Votes: 0

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law. Votes: 0

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century. Votes: 0

Use 'breath prayers' throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath. Votes: 0

Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason. Votes: 0

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black. Votes: 0

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries. Votes: 0

Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at launch of the National Millennium Trails Program, 1999) Votes: 0

Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries. Votes: 0

Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung? Votes: 0

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric. Votes: 0

Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding Votes: 0

Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries. Votes: 0

During the centuries-long process of Reformation and Enlightenment, Christian churches had to accept some things they didn't like. Islam will have to do the same; otherwise it isn't part of Europe. Votes: 0

For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that. Votes: 0

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail. Votes: 0

For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America. Votes: 0

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe. Votes: 0

For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that we all have buddha-nature - so what's the difference? Votes: 0

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet. Votes: 0

The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses. Votes: 0

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past. Votes: 0

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world. Votes: 0

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings. Votes: 0

This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire. Votes: 0

First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet, it scares me to know what's in store for them Votes: 0

Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!' Votes: 0

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital. Votes: 0

State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws. Votes: 0

Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction. Votes: 0

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. Votes: 0

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music. Votes: 0

This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself. Votes: 0

Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance. Votes: 0

Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me. Votes: 0

The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it. Votes: 0

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom. Votes: 0

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide. Votes: 0

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence. Votes: 0

Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really. Votes: 0

Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed since a Jewish troublemaker was hauled away to the gallows for disturbing the peace Votes: 0

We cannot predict the effects of our actions, especially our collective actions over generations or centuries, to use instrumental reasoning toward these big final ends to tell us what we ought to do. Votes: 0

When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty. Votes: 0

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art. Votes: 0

HIV/AIDS is the greatest danger we have faced for many, many centuries. HIV/AIDS is worse than a war. It is like a world war. Millions of people are dying from it. Votes: 0

Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on this great mountain could become nothing but a permanent and distant memory. Votes: 0

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason. Votes: 0

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. Votes: 0

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven. Votes: 0

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries. Votes: 0

I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me. Votes: 0

It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love. Votes: 0

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions. Votes: 0

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago. Votes: 0

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries. Votes: 0

Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries. Votes: 0

We have put the Cold War behind us. We no longer count our divisions and our warheads. And I am Russia's first civilian defense minister in many centuries. We have become more pragmatic. Votes: 0

...The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries... Votes: 0

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the same, and they had no option but to beg for mercy. Votes: 0

Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed since a Jewish troublemaker was hauled away to the gallows for disturbing the peace" Votes: 0

Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Votes: 0

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries. Votes: 0

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result. Votes: 0

No Christian assumes the Jews are right about everything, but they knew God during tens of centuries during which my ancestors were worshiping trees and eating each other, so when they talk, I listen. Votes: 0

Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about a bit of retouching on their forthcoming film poster? Votes: 0

The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries. Votes: 0

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. Votes: 0

I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries. Votes: 0

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound. Votes: 0

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature. Votes: 0

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country. Votes: 0

For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) Votes: 0

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. Votes: 0

In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public health, and life is relatively good for more people than ever before. Votes: 0

The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection. Votes: 0

The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground. Votes: 0

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. Votes: 0

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness. Votes: 0

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature. Votes: 0

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope. Votes: 0

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo. Votes: 0

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. Votes: 0

In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries. Votes: 0

The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean. Votes: 0

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old. Votes: 0

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Votes: 0

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 was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries. Votes: 0

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball. Votes: 0

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell. Votes: 0

In those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph. Votes: 0