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“I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.”

People Thinking Giving Years Mean Littles Brain Issues Five Planets Thousand Years Ago Environmental Thousand Years Stewardship

Author:Douglas Coupland

“I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.”

People Years Humans Stories Support Study Conditions Thousand Marketing Legends Human Condition Thousand Years Folklore

Author:Tim Schafer

“The real deep text of music and the whole reason that it has continued with the profundity and urgency that it has for over a thousand years, has to do with what the notes say, what the notes witness, different experiences of hope or doubt that people are able to distill and encode and pass on in this way.”

People Way Years Different Real Reason Whole Able Doubt Thousand Notes Witness Thousand Years Urgency Profundity Different Experiences Real Deep

Author:Michael Tilson Thomas

“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.”

Ifs Want Years Real Ends Seems Lasts Dies Views Race Blood Feet Strength Periods Thousand My Friends Let Me Dare Thousand Years Crawling

Book:Lectures from Colombo to Almora

Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora

“You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.”

Thinking Years May Important Lasts Thousand Lifetime Thousand Years

Author:George Lucas

“Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.”

“A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.”

Men Years Results Food Thousand Tradition One Man Thousand Years Soup Refined

Book:Death Comes for the Archbishop

Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop

“Because you are obsessed with the idea of past, present, and future, you are forced to think of reincarnations as strung out one before the other. Indeed we speak of past lives because you are used to the time sequence concept... You have dominant egos, all part of an inner identity, dominant in various existences. But the separate existences exist simultaneously. Only the egos involved make the time distinction... a thousand years in your past or in your future - all exist now.”

“Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.”

Years Believe Earth Half Century Thousand Six Years Ago Insight Neighbor Despite Cosmos Thousand Years Antiquity Glue Sumerians

Book:Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.”

Years Done Might Christian Wish Thousand Ten Christian Inspirational Thousand Years

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause, the face of day darkened with the blackness of the crimes perpetrated in its name.”

Men Years Has Beens Earth Religion Three Causes Blood Thousand Formulas Shed Thousand Years

Author:Felix Adler

“All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . . . In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.”

World Way Life Years Soul Body Divine Willing Return Thousand Rivers Former Realms Thousand Years Passed Away Forgetful

Author:Virgil

“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.”

“When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

Men Needs Years Made Running Evil Can Do Thousand Creatures Devil Machines Thousand Years Elbows

Book:Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

“If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets.”

Ifs Men World Years Two Saws Planets Thousand Bird Angel Years Ago Ancient Planes Thousand Years Another World Messengers

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.”

“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.”

Years Has Beens Two Thousand Luxury Prose Verses Thousand Years

Author:Voltaire

“To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.”

Ifs Should Years Stills Moments Voice Wise Changed Thousand Our Time Thousand Years Day To Day Carpe Diem Being Wise Morrow Carpe Small Voice

Book:The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir of the Author...

Source: The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir of the Author...

“If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?”

Ifs Years Firsts Would Be Thousand Awakening Thousand Years Proven Hypothesis Riemann

Author:David Hilbert

“Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!”

Years Sea Battle Thousand England Native Flags Thousand Years Breeze Mariners

Book:The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand

Source: The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand

“I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.”

Men Trying Years Believe Stills Two Lasts I Believe History Havens Changed Thousand Consequence Triumph Spite Thousand Years

Book:Civilization

Source: Civilization

“Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .”

Years Littles Dies Dark Thousand Kissing Red Stones Labels Immortality Butterfly Thousand Years Thrones Apes Pilgrim

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I try to build the things so that they're fairly indestructible. I've learned from my mistakes and some of those units, even if human life disappears from the planet, will still be recognizable a thousand years from now abandoned somewhere in the woods.”

Ifs Trying Years Humans Stills Mistake Planets Thousand Woods Disappear Human Life I've Learned Abandoned Thousand Years Units My Mistakes Indestructible

Author:John Lindsay

“Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.”

People Years Has Beens Ideas Used Thousand Evolve Willingness Thousand Years Constraints Lack Of Leadership

Author:Ziggy Marley

“People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.”

People Years Ideas Reason Dream Mankind Strange Planets Couple Thousand Destruction Disappear Seats Destroying Fades Thousand Years Fade Away

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy.”

Years Lasts Enemy Trouble Horror Thousand Yeah Certainty Thousand Years Inquisition Mao

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years.”

Ifs Should Writing Years Long Two Used Lying Thousand Articles Thousand Years Obliged Inventing Jewish Faith

Author:Martin Luther

“Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.”

Years May Mets Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside.”

Ifs Thinking Years Long Would Be Culture Term Wonder Technology Century Car Television Thousand Perception Negative Long Term Thousand Years 21st Century Short Term

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“Maybe sometimes things come to you that you never, in a thousand years, would have included. But they strike a chord, so grab it. Trust your ability to know what's true to it and what would carry you off into outer space.”

Knows Years Sometimes Ability Space Thousand Strikes Thousand Years Chords Outer Space

Author:Joan Tewkesbury

“One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.”

Years Moments Thousand Ten Thousand Years Year One

Author:Gautama Buddha

“If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted? After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the governments support this.”

Ifs Years Government Past Lying Responsibility Support Happened Bears Thousand Research Years Ago Historical Deeds Holocaust Palestinian Thousand Years

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!”

Thinking Years Wells Important One Day Thousand Opposites Important Things Superiors Sheep Thousand Years Tigers Tibetan

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff.”

Needs Years Humans Heart Art Stills Two Lasts Humanity Courses Stuff Can Do Changed Drama Thousand Core Greek Thousand Years Human Experience New Stuff Old Greek Greek Drama

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.”

World Years Dream Night Thousand Fades Thousand Years One Night

Author:Yoshida Kenko

“God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.”

People Should Years Plans Thousand Prepared Ships Tonight Abandon Thousand Years Be Prepared Voyages

Author:Joseph Bayly

“I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.”

Feels Years Two Three Interest Knowing Greater Hero Thousand Years Ago Passing Passings Thousand Years Augustus Pompey

Book:Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson

“I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation.”

Knows Years Two Real School Situation Thousand High School Real Life France Phrases Thousand Years

Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once.”

Years Doe Turns Three Waiting Thousand Thousand Years Millennium

Author:Rory Bremner

“Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?”

Men Years Has Beens Known Thousand Civilized Thousand Years

Author:Sinclair Lewis

“We have organizations, whether it is ISIS or Al Qaida, who do believe we should go back several thousand years. We should make women third-class citizens, that we should allow children to be sexually assaulted. They are a danger to modern society.”

Should Years Believe Children Class Modern Danger Citizens Thousand Organization Thirds Als Thousand Years Isis Sexually Modern Society

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all about living and in this world it was about surviving.”

“Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God's way is bound to prevail in the end.”

Way Years Two Ends Evil Jesus Taught Thousand Years Ago Overcoming Bounds My Way Thousand Years Overcoming Evil

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“When you say something, say it not for a specific day, not for a specific era, not for a specific country, but say it for all the days, for all the eras and for all the countries. Speak universal, and thus you don't have to speak thousands times; you speak once and you will be heard even ten thousand years later!”

Years Country Speak Heard Thousand Ten Universal Eras Thousand Years

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In a moment we lost our minds hereand lay our spirits down.Today we lived a thousand years,all we have is now.”

Years Mind Moments Today Spirit Lost Thousand Lays Thousand Years

Author:Edward Kowalczyk

“Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.”

Giving Years Self Pleasure Thousand Skills Profession Self Confidence Fifty Links Thousand Years Theatrical

Book:True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

Source: True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

“I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.”

“The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that there are 'alternative (always better) Biblical explanations of the same data', which make creationism a reasonable alternative to our best theories of biology and physics, is appalling intellectual dishonesty.”

“A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.”

Years Past Certain Next Thousand Breaths Thousand Years Oxygen Molecules Sample

Book:The secret house: 24 hours in the strange and unexpected world in which we spend our nights and days

Source: The secret house: 24 hours in the strange and unexpected world in which we spend our nights and days

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