“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
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
“The light from the next closest star, called Proxima Centauri, shows us how it looked just over four years ago. The light… — Carolyn Collins Petersen Copy Share Image
“Youth are natural-born storytellers. Our task in discipleship training is to steer them into a particular storytelling tradition—that is, the narrative, language,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“For the vast majority of our time on earth, our species did not buy its food or its clothing or its shelter… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“no simple mechanism could do the job as well or better. It might simply be that nobody has yet found the simpler… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“The now-famous yearly Candlebrow Conferences, like the institution itself, were subsidized out of the vast fortune of Mr. Gideon Candlebrow of Grossdale,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he showed me an aquatint of a certain Siamese… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Imagine fifty thousand men trapped on a desert island, deprived of food and water and sex but somehow kept alive for fifty… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Most people think Marv is crazy, but I don't believe that. I'm no shrink and I'm not saying I've got Marv all… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
“At the time it didn’t mean much, but now, at this age, I’ve finally experienced what the poet felt. The deep sense… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
“Rhys squeezed my hand as he looked to me at last. "And if I had not met my mate ..." His words… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Zahhak reigned for a thousand years, and from end to end the world was his to command. The wise concealed themselves and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But… — Seth Shostak 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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 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
“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
