Quotes About Centuries

Vast spaces of nature; the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; vast intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. This which I think and feel, underlay that former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and will always circumstance, and what is called life, and what is called death.

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.

Religion is the perception of that power which constructs the greatness of the centuries out of the paltriness of the hours.

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages, and the ages explained by the hours.

The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.

Thirteen centuries ago, Europe was able to stop the theocratic Islamic tidal wave because it had a faith to defend. The value-less culture of today will not be able to withstand the attack.

we're the start of an amazing, dumbfounding history of survival that will only get better as the centuries pass.

Over the ensuing decades and centuries, to be sure, the Bill of Rights has ascended to an elevated region in the American imagination. But in its own time, and in Madison's mind, it was only an essential epilogue that concluded a brilliant campaign to adjust the meaning of the American Revolution to a national scale.

Nobody ever called me any OH MY GOD you mean that guy that one that set himself on FIRE ! As I said, fanatics. But he set himself on fire! Centuries of useless, obsessive waiting. Makes a human- HE SET HIMSELF ON FIRE! Maybe he was cold.

Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

The term 'Hindu' was coined in opposition to other religions, but this self-definition through otherness began centuries before

Scientists in diverse disciplines were quick to adopt the least squares method. Over two centuries later, it remains the standard way to evaluate errors wherever achieving accuracy is the goal.

Black women are survivors. They have developed values over almost four centuries that actually seem to work. At a time when the problems of our society often seem insoluble and the obstacles to peace and freedom seem insurmountable, all Americans have a great deal to learn from black women.

New land for farming could be had merely by clearing it and sharing part of each new parcel with the appropriate local authorities. This process, known as assarting, gave a comfortable outlet for population growth for centuries after Rome fell. Assarting became particularly attractive in thinly populated northern regions after warmer temperatures in the eighth century made farming more productive.

As Tilly suggests, the important issue was "effectiveness (total output)," not "efficiency (the ratio of output to input)." In an increasingly violent world, the systems that predominated through five centuries of competition were necessarily those that facilitated the greatest access to resources needed to make war on a large scale.

Enough human sorrow had been aired on this bench below them over the centuries for them to understand when a mother mistook a daughter for a part of herself, a part that stood for something she did not like. Two people suffer whenever that mistake is made. Blank

I yearned for the kind of unseasoned telling foundIn legends, fairy tales, a tone licked cleanOver the centuries by mild old tongues,Grandam to cub, serene, anonymous.

They stopped building long enough to tilt their heads toward the heavens, and together they sang a dark, unholy song, words not spoken for centuries. Moloch watched the gathering from his place in Hell, and he said that it was good.

Two historical figures play prominent roles in this book: a pair of priests who lived centuries apart but who were tied together by fate. During the seventeenth century, Father Athanasius Kircher was known as the Leonardo da Vinci of the Jesuit Order.

People have used these books for centuries. Their accuracy is beyond dispute." "Well, I have as much respect for ancient learning as you do, but I don't know that I'd want to stake my life on some home remedy from the Middle Ages." "Well, I suppose I can check it somewhere else," he said, without much conviction.

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice.

In AD 426, a ruler named K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' (Sun-Eyed Resplendent Quetzal Macaw) came down from the Maya city of Tikal, in Guatemala, and seized control of the settlement of Copán in a coup or invasion. He became Copán's first "Holy Lord" and launched a dynasty of sixteen lords that would elevate Copán into a glorious city dominating the area for centuries.

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.

I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.