#centuries

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#belong #brutal #centuries #crossed #experienced

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. ↗

— Peter Warlock

#already #centuries #modern #more #much

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

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#common #folk #last #names

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#centuries #change #china #chinese #chinese government

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#being #centuries #civilized #discovery #exist

In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. ↗

— Evo Morales

#centuries #changes #colonialism #committed #ending

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#away #build #cast #centuries #combined

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. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#car #centuries #day #different #exercise

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

— Steven Pinker

#back #biologists #centuries #going #human

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#also #centuries #coffee #different #discovery