To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.
It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all.
Eternity is not the inexhaustible sum of all the centuries, quite the contrary —it must surely be this absence of time. Absolute calm (which can be more than a little dull!).
The sad thing about history is that there are so many people out there from centuries, generations, even eras ago who are no longer in existence. They're names and stories aren't written down. They're now just mysterious figures of bone and dust deep in the ground that will never be known because no one bothered knowing them.
Everyone measures time. Some in moments, some in years, and some in centuries. But it is a part of life.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.
Natalie Maines has a voice for the centuries.