Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd… — Douglas Coupland 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
All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain… — David Bodanis Copy Share Image
“Reed lifts his lips from mine, and looking into my eyes, he murmurs, “I want those thousand years with you, Evie, you… — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
“...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
“Man is unpredictable, despite Mr. Wells' good record. On Monday, man may be hysterical with doom, and on Tuesday you will find… — E.B. White 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
“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
“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
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on… — Ronald Reagan 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
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac,… — William Faulkner 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
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
“You think I hate men. I guess I do, although some of my best friends...I don't like this position. I mistrust generalized… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Back in Ancient Greece when Xenophon first posed the economic question, ‘How should a household best manage its resources?’ he was literally… — Kate Raworth Copy Share Image
“All aboard," the Sicilian said. (This was before trains, but the expression comes originally from carpenters loading lumber, and this was well… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and… — Wendell Berry 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
“If that's the case, hurrah for the crazy people! Look, Lola, do you remember a single name, for instance, of any of… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“You are right, Sahara. There are no mists, or veils, or distances. But the mist is surrounded by a mist; and the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I want those thousand years with you, Evie, you have no idea how much I want them. I want a thousand years,… — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect."… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the… — Xunzi 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
Perhaps today there is a greater kindness of tone, as there is greater ingenuity of expression to make up for the fact… — Charles Loomis Dana Copy Share Image
“The word hope first appeared in English about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. But what I… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
