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“What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.”

Thinking Years Time Thousand Endless Thousand Years

Author:Emile Chartier

“So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.”

“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.”

Thinking Years Humans Next Space Race Thousand Spread Human Race Thousand Years Space Race Space Science

Author:Stephen Hawking

“I've thought about it more than a thousand times. It was a thousand times worse, so I suppressed it, I suppressed it to death. The moment that I heard that Meahri was leaving, I thought the world was ending because at that moment, I was full of regret. I was avoiding, not thinking, and pretending it wasn't what my heart was hoping for earlier. I'm sorry, because I've made Meahri cry so many times. I'll do well. I'll take care of her forever. Tae-sang, this is my first and last request of you. Just this once, forgive me.”

“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

“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

“I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.”

People Thinking Way Belief Walks Share Streets Middle Walking Thousand Best Way

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.”

Thinking Firsts Book Humor Funny Brain Doors Drug Thousand Ten Perception Critics Melting Huxley Doors Of Perception

Author:Bill Bailey

“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.”

“There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.”

Thinking Should Years Made Lasts Challenges Decision Results Policy Inspire Thousand Ten Built Proportion Executives Provoking Right Decision Morris

Author:William Morris

“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.”

“And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.”

Thinking Moments America Three Land Events Thousand Loved Ones Defining Horrific Defining Moments

Author:Donald Evans

“Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.”

Thinking Hard Evil Blood Worst Produce Masters Thousand Ten Weakness Vices Tyranny Cruelty Chains Luxury Sensual Tyrants Apathy Harsh Wickedness Energetic Despotism Sloth Negligence

Author:Lord Byron

“To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.”

“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

“I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of time helps with work/life balance. If I'm checking it all day I start to feel cuckoo-bird. So I just do it once or twice a day instead of a thousand. And then remembering that it doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter.”

“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

“It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.”

Thinking Self Easier Thousand Achievement Standards Charity Oneself Noble Self Respect Donate Personal Achievement

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.”

Thinking Humans Country Three Millions Thousand Thirty Sheep New Zealand

Author:Barry Humphries

“I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Years Four Thousand Years Ago Nuclear Code Thousand Years Dinosaurs Palin

Author:Matt Damon

“[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.”

Thinking Knows Men Giving Play Purpose Song Sides Comfort Thousand Bed Men And Women Female Argument Males Scripture Enjoyment Companion Peculiar Adam Rapture Cords Milton Augustine Thinking God

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.”

Thinking World Years Past Thousand Ideology Thousand Years Lenses Over The Past Poisonous

Author:Terence McKenna

“But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers that come along every thousand years or so to mess up the mess that has been created and try and send people off on another tack. And the way to do this is to look at the abysses that confront man as species and individuals and try to unify them. And I think that psilocybin offers a way out because it allows a dialogue with the over-mind. You won't read about it in "Scientific American" or anywhere else. You will carry it out.”

“If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.”

People Ifs Thinking Shows Problem Jobs Motivation Black Watches Thousand Black People

Author:Jesse Jackson

“I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys.”

Thinking Men Way Years Wells Looks Littles Said Talking Boys Five Thousand Bigger Dollars Toys Businessman Seventies Little Boys

Author:Jonathan Winters

“I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.”

Thinking Play Whole Thousand Witty

Author:Douglas Coupland

“I think 9/11 was a couple of thousand assholes in Afghanistan who ran rampant and just kind of did their thing and we could have gotten them in Tora Bora if that was handled better.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Couple Thousand Ran Afghanistan

Author:Richard Patrick

“Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.”

Thinking Men Years Feelings Care White Land Thousand Celebrate Native Native American Thousand Years White Man Columbus Columbus Day

Author:Carlos Mencia

“Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.”

Thinking Men Years Has Beens Two Earth Jesus Christ Christianity Divine Thousand Jesus Christ Years Ago Deeper Thousand Years Thinking Man

Book:An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library

Source: An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library

“I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years, and where religiosity is going in the future. I think that's a topic I've been chewing on for a few years; I would love to eventually work on and produce a book out of it.”

Thinking Years Book Lasts Religious Produce Thousand Thousand Years Topics Chewing Religious Experience

Author:Reza Aslan

“We, PANTERA, had the greatest, the most intense, dedicated fans I've ever seen in my ******* life. And I really hope with all my heart that one day, people - especially our fans and my friends - can see clearly enough to think for themselves and really realize that I have nothing but love for them. I've just been going through personal hell since December. Once again, it's very hard to talk about, man. You know, my heart is in a thousand pieces a day.”

People Thinking Knows Men Heart Hard Enough Realizing Hell Pieces Fans My Heart One Day Thousand My Friends Intense Dedicated December Pantera

Author:Phil Anselmo

“I've approached music with the understanding that knowledge is available regarding tones and their effect upon the body. I think the father of that knowledge was the mathematician Pythagoras who lived several thousand years ago. Pythagoras was also a fine musician and he knew specifically what tones would affect which parts of the body.”

Thinking Years Body Father Understanding Effects Fine Thousand Musician Years Ago Available Tone Mathematician Thousand Years Parts Of The Body

Author:Paul Horn

“I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape.”

People Thinking Moments Shows Thousand Ten That Moment Responding

Author:Thom Yorke

“I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage I'm that confident and that cocky, because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.”

People Thinking Knows Real Hands Mistake Laughing Stage Thousand Real Life Staring Microphones Cocky Cockiness

Author:Russell Peters

“So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought makes an impression upon it. People who think many kinds of thought must expect to receive a confused manifestation in their lives. If a gardener plants a thousand kinds of seeds, he will get a thousand kinds of plants: it is the same in mind.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Kind Thousand Plant Seeds Impression Manifestation Confused Plastic Gardener Receptive

Book:Creative Mind

Source: Creative Mind

“Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed - if that one writer had not, a hundred times or a thousand, made the choice to write. You're going to be that one writer one day for somebody you may never meet. Nobody can write that book you're going to write - that book that will light up and change up a life - but you.”

Ifs Thinking Writing May Made Book Light Would Be Choices Special One Day Thousand Hundred Light Up

Author:Sarah Rees Brennan

“Weight Watchers says nothing tastes better than thin feels. I can think of a thousand things that taste better than thin feels.”

Thinking Feels I Can Taste Thousand Weight Watchers Weight Watchers

Book:Food: A Love Story

Source: Food: A Love Story

“If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Two Together Audience Pieces Thousand Garden Tonight Forty Squares Twelve Orchestra Ensemble Madison Duets Madison Square Garden

Author:John Densmore

“There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a million words.”

Thinking Wells Earth Millions Thousand Flying Statements Google Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words Google Earth

Author:Rebecca Moore

“For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted small flowers. This was the Christ painting [The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 2008] in my Down exhibition [2008]. Now, I simply can't spend eight hours a day painting small, identical flowers. And so I've got a team that allows me to have these grand, sweeping statements.”

Thinking Hands Lasts Christ Hours Team Feet Example Painting Flower Thousand Hundred Eight Statements Massive Identical Tombs Sweeping Exhibitions

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.”

Thinking Years Littles Helping Christian Hours Half Comedy Couple Thousand Racism Ethics Notion Silly Thousand Years Erase Half Hours Hanging Around Christian Ethics

Author:Norman Lear

“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.”

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Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.”

People Thinking Years Made Book Hurt Week Share New York Changed Thousand Mouths Moved Made It Transformed Word Of Mouth Hurting People One Thousand Gifts

Author:Ann Voskamp

“We all think we have our personal favorites. But when I say, "People shouldn't steal - is it true?" Everyone in a room of, let's say, a thousand people all raise their hands and say, "That's true."”

People Thinking Hands Rooms Thousand Raises Stealing

Author:Byron Katie

“For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five thousand Facebook followers. You didn't have to worry about every club, every venue you play, where the venues say well you know can you put up this video, put up that Facebook, put up... Nowadays it's really like you just can't be a musician alone.”

Thinking Knows Wells Play Artist Worry Five Like You Thousand Musician Twenties Clubs Video Like Me Followers Twenty Five Venues Really Like You

Author:Joe Louis Walker

“I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are since they're on the air, and there are a couple hundred thousand people reading The Weekly Standard online, and that's great too, but most Americans aren't engaged that intensely, and are much less partisan.”

People Thinking Reading Millions Five Air Tvs Fine Couple Thousand Standards Hundred Engaged Online Partisans

Author:William Kristol

“The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a sense of the revelatory detail. I look for them.”

Thinking Writing Years Looks Memories Couple Thousand Details Recalls Thousand Years Good Memories

Author:Kevin Starr

“I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.”

People Thinking Years Made Book Hurt Week Share New York Changed Thousand Mouths Moved Dare Made It Where You Are Transformed New York Times Word Of Mouth Hurting People One Thousand Gifts

Author:Ann Voskamp

“Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'”

“I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.”

Thinking Men Made Age Beautiful Gone Objects Ought Thousand Stones Skins Woods Bones Fabric Tribes Statues Ivory Fetish Prehistoric Stone Age Beautiful Objects Prehistoric Man African Tribes

Author:Pablo Picasso