With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine 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
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn’t have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.” — Rick Riordan 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
“Aye lass,” nodded Gizurr, “you are quite the beauty for sure. I’d certainly offer to buy you a beer or two if… — Jake Adler Copy Share Image
“How has the incessant, grinding campaign of socio-scientific insistence upon the naturalness of sexual monogamy combined with a couple thousand years of… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, some people did that for a living. They would just sit on a tree branch or a stone bench… — Patric Juillet Copy Share Image
“Answer this: A thousand years from now, will it matter what title the world gave you? No, but it will make a… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“A lot of people lounge by pools in L.A., but few of them are truly immortal, no matter how hard they pretend… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead… — Wilferd Peterson 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
“I got back from the University late in the afternoon, had a quick swim, ate my dinner, and bolted off to the… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
“Bodies influence the space that surrounds them; they tell us whatever we can learn about that space. Does this mean that, possibly,… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
“I thought I heard an axe chop in the woods It broke the dream; and woke up dreaming on a train. It… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar… — Morris Mandel Copy Share Image
The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body… — Guo Xiang Copy Share Image
“I think that could go back to the time when people had to live in small groups of relatives—maybe fifty or a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“God is a wise husbandman, who "waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it (James 5:7).… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by random computer selection from the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
