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We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
View quotes by Judy Collins

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
View quotes by Ayn Rand

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.
View quotes by G M Trevelyan

Recorded centuries leave no trace,
On memory of that timeless grace.
View quotes by John Arlott

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
View quotes by Rene Descartes

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
View quotes by Boris Pasternak

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
View quotes by James Russell Lowell

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.
View quotes by James M Baldwin

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
View quotes by Virginia Woolf

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing (Centuries of Meditation)
View quotes by Thomas Traherne

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.
View quotes by Sir Walter Scott

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.
View quotes by Edwin Markham

It's what Jonathan Swift suggested two and a half centuries ago: making two blades of grass grow where one grew before - and doing it in such a way that doesn't deplete the earth's resources. [on sustainable development]
View quotes by Martin Bell

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
View quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. What greed and privilege build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
View quotes by Jose Marti

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

View quotes by Albert Camus



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