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
The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Pendants have for two thousand years reiterated the notion that women have a more lively spirit, men more solidity; that women have… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The thing about women is that they got liberated too fast. They never learned to be straightforward about life because they had… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
“The Neanderthals lived in Europe for more than a hundred thousand years and during that period they had no more impact on… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“I hope that if I ever travel two thousand years into the future, there will still be bacon.” — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I stood in the doorway of one room, lost in a meditation of the house's recurring habits. People had made love here,… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
“WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY? Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle came to the unsurprising conclusion that what a person wants above all… — Mikael Krogerus Copy Share Image
We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
“Well, I drank enough to sustain a small Spanish village, I haven't had an orgasm in a thousand years, and I will… — Alice Clayton Copy Share Image
“Where was it that I read about a man condemned to death saying or thinking, an hour before his death, that if… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There were words for what he meant to me, but if I studied every language ever spoken for the next thousand years,… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“In the thousand years since its foundation, the city had never been taken by force, though twice it had been seduced.” — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
“How do I know that the love of life is not a delusion? Or that the fear of death is not like… — Chuang Tzu Copy Share Image
“I don't have to tell you what this land used to look like," he said. "And you don't have to tell me… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Here, in the Land of Israel, we returned and built a nation. Here, in the Land of Israel, we established a State.… — Yitzhak Rabin 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
“I don't like it," said Lenina. "I don't like it." She liked even less what awaited her at the entrance to the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Laugh away; I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry. I know,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“A behavior has occurred that is good, bad, or ambiguous. How have cultural factors stretching back to the origins of humans contributed… — Robert M. Sapolsky 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
“We shall remember ...... Damascus, the "Pearl of the East", the pride of Syria, the fabled garden of Eden, the home of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
