No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should… — M. R. DeHaan Copy Share Image
“Often the psyche is the worst enemy of the body: it doesn’t let the body live, it doesn’t let it enjoy itself… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Christians have been beaten, whipped, starved, humiliated, mutilated, tortured, hung, burned at the stake, crucified, and fed to lions; yet two thousand… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Some of these people think the universe is five thousand years old, and they say it with a straight face. If somebody… — James Carville Copy Share Image
It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I'm a thousand years old,' Fire said, 'just like you.' 'Hmm,' Brigan said. He didn't ask her what she meant, which was… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Be thou the first true merit to befriend; His praise is lost, who stays till all commend. Short is the date, alas,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“To discover that the Universe is some 8 to 15 billion and not 6 to 12 thousand years old* improves our appreciation… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Aztec peasants, Babylonian shepherds, Athenian stonemasons, and Carolingian merchants spoke different languages,2 wore different clothing, and prayed to different deities, but they… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“That the writers of the Bible recognized a plurality of gods -- were polytheists -- is proved by the following 'And the… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
“The global triumph of Western values means we, as a species, have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We've surpassed ourselves now, we're exploring terrain beyond the limits of merely human understanding. Sometimes its contours, even in conventional space, are… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“I think perhaps we want a more conscientious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of always deferring… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“...simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“She glared at Tensin. "Thanks, that's reassuring." Tensin shrugged. "It should be. I've been alive over five thousand years. If there's one… — elizabeth hunter Copy Share Image
“Bush, it will go down in history, it’s unbelievable that guy was president. Unbelievable. I’m sure, I’m 100 percent sure, in one… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
“Two thousand years of inherited philosophy tugs on our ankles, our cognitive inertial mass being our evolutionarily endowed perceptual systems with their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Daniel hadn't given in once across the five thousand years she'd witnessed. No matter that they killed her again and again and… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
What are you doing here? (Artemis) I wanted to thank you for what you did tonight, but as I considered that, it… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world. Perhaps I can never achieve the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of… — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans… — Guus Kuijer Copy Share Image
“For thirty millennia, three thousand years on Rathillien alone, the Kencyrath had fought the long retreat from world to world, down the… — P.C. Hodgell Copy Share Image
How to be brave? How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?…I will be brave. I will not let anything take… — Christina Perri Copy Share Image
“If you wedge me between two tall cliffs, I would hang a portrait on each and call them home. If you wedge… — Rachel Haimowitz Copy Share Image
“Women should not feel obliged towards any men for eternity. They earned this privilege by gathering berries, digging roots, picking wild rice,… — Vinko Vrbanic Copy Share Image
“thousand years ago the average life expectancy of mankind was only twenty-five years. It took another nine hundred years to extend that… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals… — John Green Copy Share Image
I won Serie A with Juventus, the UEFA Cup with AC Milan as a player, important trophies and I felt like I… — Paolo di Canio Copy Share Image
“Consider the case of alchemy: it fascinated human beings for over a thousand years, and yet anyone who seriously claims to be… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“No, I’m talking about undiscovered science. A thousand years ago, people believed the earth was flat. Five hundred years ago, doctors thought… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“You could have fucked me ’til your uncut, overexposed on the blogs, ‘too ginormous for my snatch’ pecker fell off. And I’d… — Avery Aster Copy Share Image
The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
