Centuries Quotes
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I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to think that this meaning governed the way the world was. But it's an illusion to think that there are good and bad reasons. Grammar is a lie to make us think that what we say is connected by a logic that you'll find if you study it, a lie that gone on for centuries. Because I now know that life just lurches between stability and instability and doesn't obey any law.
Delphine de Vigan -
There is a Zone whose even Years No Solstice interrupt - Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon Whose perfect Seasons wait - Whose Summer set in Summer, till The Centuries of June And Centuries of August cease And Consciousness - is Noon.
Emily Dickinson
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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.
George Bernard Shaw -
For everyone who has carried water in thimbles and teaspoons throughout the centuries. And for all those who continue to do so. For as many centuries as it takes.
Courtney Milan -
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
William Jewett Tucker -
It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets.
Isaac Mizrahi -
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.
Nikola Tesla -
Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
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“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.”
Alexis De Veaux -
Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
Ariel Durant -
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
George Eliot -
Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.
Stephen Hough -
The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To address the climate crisis, we now need billions of people to make ecologically intelligent decisions.
Allen Hershkowitz -
After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
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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.
Will Durant -
And this is why studying the history of psi is important. People have been reporting these phenomena for millennia and studying them for centuries. Human experiences that continue to be repeated throughout history and across cultures, are not due to ignorance or lack of critical thinking, and demand a serious explanation.
Dean Radin -
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
Thomas Carlyle -
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 -
During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.
Bill Gates