“Out of hundred years, a few moments were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.”

— Antonio Porchia

Me hicieron de cien años algunos minutos que se quedaron conmigo, no cien años.
Voces (1943)

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Me hicieron de cien años algunos minutos que se quedaron conmigo, no cien años.

Voces (1943)

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Antonio Porchia 276

Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Mueren cien años en un instante, lo mismo que un instante en un instante.
Voces (1943)

“It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?”

Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author

God Is An Iron (1977)
Context: "It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand? That lemming drive you're talking about is there — but there's another kind of drive, another kind of force that's working against it. Or else there wouldn't still be any people and there wouldn't be the words to have this conversation and—" She paused, looked down at herself. "And I wouldn't be here to say them."

“Four hundred years of losing out on the girl of my dreams isn't sitting very well with me these days.”

Alyson Nöel book Dark Flame

Source: Dark Flame

“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!”

George Gamow (1904–1968) Russian-American physicist and science writer

Source: The Creation of the Universe (1952), p. 139

“It was only with the rise of capitalism over the past few hundred years, and the breathtaking acceleration of industrialization from the 1950s, that on a planetary scale things began to tip out of balance.”

Jason Hickel (1982) author

Capitalism: A Creation Story, p. 39
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2021)

“The amount of organic matter that could have been produced in the first few hundred million years of Earth history”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
Context: The amount of organic matter that could have been produced in the first few hundred million years of Earth history was sufficient to have produced in the present ocean a several-percent solution of organic matter. This is just about the dilution of Knorr's chicken soup, and not that different from the composition either. And chicken soup is widely known to be good for life.