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Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings. -- Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.. -- Tina St. John
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Centuries ago, human beings created marriage. Later, they looked to the sky and dreamt of traveling to the moon. Coincidence? -- Dana Gould
For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise. -- Robert Breault
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. -- Robert Fogel
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. -- Charles M. Schulz
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? -- Maggie Grace
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. -- Mortimer Collins
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full. -- Boyle Roche
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. -- Rene Descartes
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. -- Levi Strauss
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. -- Ayn Rand
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come. -- Stefan Zweig
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. -- Lord Acton
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. -- Aaron Swartz
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. -- James Madison
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. -- James Joyce
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. -- Walter Scott
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. -- Jean Genet
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. -- Doc Hastings
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. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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. -- Haile Selassie
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. -- Cleveland Abbe
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. -- Ami Bera
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. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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. -- Jonathan Sacks
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. -- Alan Huffman
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. -- Judy Collins
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. -- Virat Kohli
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. -- Henry Rollins
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. -- John Henrik Clarke
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? -- Emilie Autumn
Milliseconds influence centuries. -- Robert Cowley
My hours are peaceful centuries. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you! -- Napoleon Bonaparte
What if miliseconds influence centuries? -- Robert Cowley
his voice was centuries old -- Maggie Stiefvater
Truth takes no account of centuries. -- William Wordsworth
Women have been kicking ass for centuries. -- Yancy Butler
Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries. -- Jacob Zuma
There were centuries when civilization had no theater. -- Orson Welles
He loved us personally...centuries before we were born. -- Peter Julian Eymard
For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people. -- Pico Iyer
For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people. -- Pico Iyer
Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility. -- Anthony Jeselnik
Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought. -- James Russell Lowell
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. -- Victor Hugo
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries. -- Rene Descartes
Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries. -- Tom Tancredo
A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries -- Grant Morrison
Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason. -- Dan Brown
There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries. -- Mary Catherwood
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope. -- Maya Angelou
You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries. -- Garrett Fort
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. -- Leo Rosten
Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries. -- Frank B. Kellogg
Art can have connections over many centuries or thousands of years. -- Wolfgang Laib
We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds. -- Jimmy Buffett
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. -- H. L. Mencken
Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose. -- Walter de La Mare
Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries. -- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you. -- Melissa Marr
We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass. -- Pat Paulsen
Test centuries is one such records which doesn't look like being surpassed -- Sunil Gavaskar
Republican Party hasn't been black friendly over the many centuries in this country. -- Joy Behar
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries. -- Patty Duke
The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries. -- James Gleick
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. -- Alberto Manguel
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. -- Georges Braque
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom. -- Gary Saul Morson
It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets. -- Isaac Mizrahi
No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years. -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries. -- Charles Bukowski
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. -- Georg Buchner
By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought. -- Charles F. Haanel
Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries. -- David Hockney
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance. -- Emile Zola
The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be. -- Virat Kohli
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries. -- Barack Obama
Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by. -- Nelson Mandela
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. -- Albert Schweitzer
Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries. But you imprison those who employ it privately." -- Testy McTesterson
Twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and three cents in coins, from six centuries. -- Kami Garcia
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries. -- Marthe Bibesco
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself." -- Gore Vidal
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitlers passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed. -- Robert Runcie
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself. -- Gore Vidal
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed. -- Robert Runcie
We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. -- Judy Collins
What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries. -- Jeaniene Frost
The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll. -- Benjamin Disraeli
In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it. -- Bill Nye
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. -- Mark Twain
Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem. -- Janet Montgomery
Deep is the chasm between the centuries, but by bridging it a man may return home. -- David C. Douglas
The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries. -- Thomas Sowell
Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. -- Michio Kaku
Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man. -- Thomas A. Edison
Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries. -- Louis Dudek
A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries. -- Robert Gilpin
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone. -- Theodore Zeldin
Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date? -- Peter Kay
When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries. -- Josemaria Escriva
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries. -- George Berkeley
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. -- Bram Stoker
Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government. -- Michael Ledeen
It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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