Two thousand years ago, we abandoned imperialism and militarism. We have been peace-lovers ever since. — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
“One who loves lives a thousand years in one day; one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“I've waited for what feels like two thousand years to tell you how much I love you and to touch your lips… — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“TO-DAY of past Regrets and future Fears- To-morrow?—Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.” — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“Change the fabric of their culture? It hasn’t happened yet, not in two thousand years. And it won’t happen now.” — James Webb Copy Share Image
Down in the dump cell, where I can't take no smell. It's like a oven baking for 2 thousand years. When the… — Black Uhuru Copy Share Image
“In Europe, Murrow observed to his wife, people were dying and "a thousand years of civilization [were] being smashed" while America remained… — Lynne Olson Copy Share Image
That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained,… — Christo Copy Share Image
“For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
I'm sure that there is no other person in this world whose heart is as beautiful as yours. After all, I know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“The story that the church has been telling for two thousand years is an outrageous tale about a man who was executed… — Emmanuel Katongole Copy Share Image
Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with… — Dirk Wittenborn Copy Share Image
You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark; Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us? Jewelry… — Qiu Jin Copy Share Image
Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“If I longed for destruction it was merely that this eye might be extinguished. I longed for an earthquake, for some cataclysm… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The Greek historian Herodotus, writing over two thousand years ago, produced one of the first descriptions of one culture getting worked up… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
“They have read your novel,’ Woland said, ‘and they said only one thing, that, unfortunately, it is not finished. So I wanted… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“At the time, I thought my colleague’s views sounded absurdly legalistic: if Christianity had lost all its living and breathing followers in… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“In this pilgrimage in search of modernity I lost my way at many points only to find myself again. I returned to… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by random computer selection from the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Studying a book that was finished nearly two thousand years ago may appear to some like an interesting but somewhat impractical pursuit.… — John Snyder Copy Share Image
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel. — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“He held it up to the light, glancing at the technology he and his partner had embedded almost seventy thousand years ago.” — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“The treasures of ten thousand years ago were not the treasures of today.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!" — Dexter Kozen Copy Share Image