After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see,… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever… — John Green Copy Share Image
“i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“You smile like Gerion and fight like Tyg, and theree;s some Kevan is you, else you would not wear that cloak... but… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“We were never born to read. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged… — Grabe 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
“True, hundreds of millions may nevertheless go on believing in Islam, Christianity or Hinduism. But numbers alone don’t count for much in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“All the substances that are the main drugs of abuse today originate in natural plant products and have been known to human… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“They say there are flowers that bloom only once every hundred years. Why shouldn't there be some that bloom only once every… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
We got latched together and I was hoping you could separate us? (Amanda) They were made by your stepfather. Any chance you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“In spite of all the progress we seem to have made, human emotions stay the same. Deep inside our hearts, we don’t… — Kyoichi Katayama Copy Share Image
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
“Scientists estimate that it took a thousand years for an inch of topsoil to accumulate on the arid high plains. It was… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian) Well, you're never too old to learn. (Amanda) You can't… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the… — Geoff Davis Copy Share Image
We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
“Though the continued march of intellect and education have nearly obliterated from the mind of the Scots a belief in the marvelous,… — James Grant Copy Share Image
“The sorrow bird: We've gone too far. I'm afraid we can't go back. Hoopoe: Back?... There's a circle, bird. Why, just think… — Peter Sís Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I need dating advice. Fast...Julian, how did you meet your wife?" Julian shrugged. "My brother the sex god cursed me into a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. Dreams of that… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The world is the way it is now because of five thousand years of ingrained structures of power based on darker times… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been.… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
“Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image