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“No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?”

Years Two Ends Education Sorrow Thousand Endless Thousand Years

Author:Billy Joel

“The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.”

Years Ends Hands Earth Christ Thousand All Things Kingdoms Destroyed Satan Thousand Years Chained

Book:The prophecies of Joanna Southcott, relating to the dreadful judgments that will fall on this nation in the present year, 1810. Selected and animadverted on by R. Hann

Source: The prophecies of Joanna Southcott, relating to the dreadful judgments that will fall on this nation in the present year, 1810. Selected and animadverted on by R. Hann

“I have so much to grapple with, I don't think too much about me. People call it the "dance of a thousand egos" when you make a movie. If only I had time to worry when I was making a movie about what the hell I was doing. It's sort of a marathon every day. And then at the end of it, you beg the producers for five more marathons.”

People Ifs Thinking Ends Worry Hell Five Too Much Thousand Ego Producers Marathon

Author:Andrew Niccol

“There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post- Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army — hard to imagine.”

“In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.”

Ends Realizing Thousand Ten Decided

Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”

Long Said Ends Whole Home Dream Wanted Lasts Found Strong Heaven Water Break Thousand Tables Bounds Rounds Whole Life Peaceful Fancy Flood Homeless Vessel Long Life Roaming

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of the ninth century AD. Today's Icelanders, with considerable effort, can understand people from the Scandinavian peninsula, but the Scandinavians hardly understand the Icelanders. A thousand years is the minimum time span for a language to change so much that it becomes incomprehensible.”

“The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the people who were then alive. After his return to heaven from Earth he is going to build those mansions, come back before his generation dies out, finally put an end to the world which has been such a rotten disappointment, and deposit most of these souls in hell. No wonder heaven is only 12,000 furlongs wide, long, and high.”

“To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.”

“The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from wounds inflicted on their bodies and their spirit. Sixty-three million souls in Vietnam are still suffering from their 'victory.”

Stills War Soul Ends Body Spirit Suffering Three Millions Four Victory Thousand Hundred Wounds Vietnam Sixty Veteran Vietnam War Recovering

Book:When Heaven & Earth Change Places

Source: When Heaven & Earth Change Places

“The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.”

World Humans Heart Made Ends Spirit Wealth Progress Thousand Army Human Heart Human Spirit Decency

Author:William J. Clinton

“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.”

“That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.”

Years Ends Pay Sun Taken Terrible Walking Thousand Intensity Apathy Away From You Hallways Tedium

Author:George Jung

“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

“A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.”

Heart May Littles Ends Path Thousand Corners Confession Lighting

Author:Martha Beck

“The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through.”

Way Writing Littles Book Ends Next Bits Morning Thousand Little Bit Editing Edits

Author:Walter Mosley

“If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.”

Ifs World Way Years Looks Ends Religious Millions Four This World Thousand Six Hundred Afternoon

Author:Arundhati Roy

“Because the math is, if you - 5 percent of a million is a lot more than 5 percent of a thousand. So yeah, someone who makes more money, numerically, it's gonna be higher. But the greatest gains, percentage-wise, for people, are gonna be at the lower end of our plan.”

People Ifs Ends Millions Wise Plans Higher Thousand Percent Gains Yeah Math More Money Percentages

Author:Ted Cruz

“When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!”

People Stills Ends Nations Youth Greatness Thousand Weak Glorious Prime Expansion Manhood Shrinks Great Nations Coming To An End

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“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

“The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.”

“There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your face when you get to the end. Girls like it sad, with a thousand-yard stare out to the distance as you gaze upon the horrors of war they can't quite see. Either way, it's the same story.”

Way Two War Ends Stories Faces Guy Girl Horror Thousand Distance Staring Your Face Yards Two Ways Gore Horror Of War

Book:Redeployment

Source: Redeployment

“Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.”

Years Two Ends Christian Thousand Claims Jew Thousand Years End Times

Author:Tom Robbins

“In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back.”

Years Book Ends Done Novel Sun Effects Thousand Splendid Sabbatical Thousand Splendid Suns

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“It was really just the name that inspired me: Rainsboro. It's located near Rocky Fork State Park. I have probably driven through that little place a thousand times, but, in that weird way my mind works sometimes, one particular evening it just hit me the right way, I guess. Created a mood more than anything else. And then I started thinking about a woman and her young son who end up there.”

Thinking Way Mind Littles Ends Sometimes States Young Names Particular Son Thousand Inspired Driven Mood Evening Parks Right Way Forks Young Sons

Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.”

Writing Years May Two Ends Might Novel Five Couple Thousand Dollars Manage Five Years

Author:Mordecai Richler

“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”

People Should Years Book Ends Stories Three Education Written Week College Thousand Library Programming Educate No Money Public Library

Author:Ray Bradbury

“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”

Firsts Ends Suffering Fall Evil Silence Heard Crime Cry Horror Thousand Summer Hundred First Time Rain Spread Invisible Tyranny Tyrants Blanket Unendurable Butchery

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and has been so for many thousand years. I had a vision of a passing boat and heard some voices saying disquieting things. I heard a clock strike in some distant house... but in which house?... I long to quiet my anxious heart and stand beneath the sky's immensity. I long to pray... And one of all the stars must still exist. I do believe that I would know which one alone endured, and which like a white city stands at the ray's end shining in the heavens.”

“But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Two Ends Done Would Be Today Lasts Jesus Church Thousand Spokes Jail Thousand Years Framed

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.”

Ifs Ends Whole Stories Happened Thousand

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.”

Feels Looks Different Ends Moments Able Easy Change Steps Possibility Wind Thousand Reputation Just One Breakup Pauses New Friends Detours Bad Reputation Before I Fall

Author:Lauren Oliver

“Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.”

Way Years May Long Ends Play Seems Together Week Months Thousand Series Notes Melancholy Chords Unfolding Pining Accordions

Book:Three Junes

Source: Three Junes

“To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.”

“He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.”

Ends Self Lost Felt Hours Animal Path Return Thousand Shadow Rain Stones Inevitable Sunshine Cycles Torment Moonlight Siddhartha

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.”

Men Humans Ends Interest Human Beings Animal Example Possibility Objects Thousand Curious Characteristics Complexity Richness Riddle Insatiable Exuberance

Book:The street of crocodiles and other stories

Source: The street of crocodiles and other stories

“One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.”

People World Ends Facts Reality Age Our Lives Written Achieve Thousand Connections Statements Greek Proven Astonishing Outside World Corridors

Author:J. K. Rowling

“One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one”

Kind May Ends Facts Humanity Natural Thousand Significant Equipment

Book:The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays

Source: The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays