I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Nobody can doubt Puerto Rico, sociologically, linguistically, culturally, and historically, is a nation. We have our own rich culture, thousand years of… — Anibal Acevedo Vila Copy Share Image
“when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“If you stop training and learning you start sinking. Nobody can float: You're either rising or sinking. It's been this way for… — Tom Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Mother had told me her favorite story about a little Protestant lady who, on being told that the candle at the high… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
“After all, when we had all the books we needed, we still insisted on finding the highest cliff to jump off. But… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So what is love then is it dictated or chosen (handed down and made by hand) Does it sing like the hymns… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“Thus I stretch out my arms to my Saviour, who, after being foretold for four thousand years, came on earth to die… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
“I thought I heard an axe chop in the woods It broke the dream; and woke up dreaming on a train. It… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“For a perfect yogī, there are eight kinds of superachievements: one can become lighter than air, one can become smaller than the… — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Copy Share Image
“The tree blossoms, and bears its fruit, which falls, rots, withers, and even the seed is lost! Go, count the rings of… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“When you’re in a band, you spend the first four hundred thousand years of your career dragging around your own crap. Your… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“It appears that God has deliberately left us in a quandary about many things. Why did He not summarize all the rules… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“The things they have done to us! The truths they have turned into lies! The ideals they have fouled and made vile.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“And then," said Sarnac, "I remember that I made a prophecy. I made it - when did I make it? Two thousand… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“ Now you’re concerned with the laws? I didn’t realize you could pick and choose which ones to follow, Jagen. That sounds… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
“It’s important to keep in mind that when viewed against the full scale of our species’ existence, ten thousand years is but… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“We can start work we won’t see the end of. “Plant sequoias,” urges Wendell Berry: Put your faith in the two inches… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or… — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
And all along I believed I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a… — Christina Perri Copy Share Image
A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years,… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
Why does a state last a thousand years? Why not 999? Why not a thousand and one? What are the events that… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“You do have a thousand years’ seniority, after all.” “A thousand years’ back pay,” said a dock inspector, in an awed voice.” — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Do you ever think about the rocks?" he said. "How does that go?" "Maybe they are alive and their hearts beat once… — Robert Olmstead Copy Share Image
The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the… — Bono Copy Share Image