“In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?” IfsMenYearsMayOrderNextAsksPlansPeriodsThousandDrawsSafetyReasonableThousand YearsDefiniteNext Day Author:Mikhail Bulgakov
“Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?” YearsTwoOrderAsksSinCrimePeriodsThousandWorshipFemaleMalesInjusticeGoddessMinorsReplacedThousand YearsLinkedMoses Book:Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi Source: Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi
“Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a few thousand copies over a period of fifteen years, while the same title by Seymour Lipschutz in the The Schaum's Outlines will be considered a failure unless it brings in a steady annual income from the sale of a few hundred thousand copies in twenty-six languages?” YearsScienceLanguagePeriodsThousandSixHundredTwentiesMathematicsIncomeTitlesCopiesSteadyDisplayFifteenOutlinesLinearAnnualsAlgebraFifteen Years Author:Gian-Carlo Rota
“It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.” YearsWellsReligionDifficultWomenCuttingSeaInfluenceLandPeriodsThousandPaidSevenExtremesMilesBoundariesSignificanceReverenceGoddessLongevityThousand YearsImmensityExpanse Author:Merlin Stone
“Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength.” IfsWantYearsRealEndsSeemsLastsDiesViewsRaceBloodFeetStrengthPeriodsThousandMy FriendsLet MeDareThousand YearsCrawling Book:Lectures from Colombo to Almora Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora
“It is really appropriate to call Jesus the word because God spoke him into existence through dozens probably a hundred different people over a four thousand year period of time. The Holy Spirit took these words and impregnated Mary.” PeopleYearsDifferentSpiritJesusExistenceFourPeriodsHolyThousandHundredHoly SpiritAppropriateSpokesDozenMaryThousand YearsDifferent Peoples Author:Andrew Wommack
“Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.” AmountPeriodsThousandVacationAnticipationResearchersDutch Author:Daniel Kahneman
“There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.” LittlesEnergyBitsAbilityCreativityPeriodsThousandLittle BitSittingFoldsRenaissance Author:Juan Enriquez