“Pessimism is a very easy way out when you’re considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life.… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“The orb sat, exhausted and astonished. In a thousand years and more—it had never been thanked for failure.” — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
“Suppose two thousand years ago, or even earlier, humanity learned that an alien invasion fleet would arrive a few thousand years later.… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Like many things that are claimed as Western inventions, grammar was first practiced in the East. According to scholars, there is a… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“ In a thousand years or ten thousand, no one would remember my nation. It, too, would share in oblivion and prove to… — Miller Rory Copy Share Image
The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“You should get one of those new-fangled, one-piece siren suits," she teased Jedrick, stepping over to fix his collar. "Think how fast… — Sarah Brazytis Copy Share Image
“Alexandria was "the single place on earth where all the knowledge in the entire world was gathered together -- every great play… — Adam Rogers 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
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years. — Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark Copy Share Image
I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“But despite these signs of ill-omen, the city was poised, with a new myth glinting in the corners of its eyes. August… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“What manner of men had lived in those days...who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion? Why… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years,… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential. — David Koepp Copy Share Image
“Jack regarded himself as locked in a lifelong struggle with this establishment, on behalf of the Anglo-Saxon peasantry whose birthright had been… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image