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 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
“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
“...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
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
While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“Why did Park Chung-Hee launch his political career in 1961 by lambasting Korean history? Why did he follow up two years later… — Chong-Sik Lee Copy Share Image
“...You think if I haven't had your religious experience I can't appreciate the magnificence of your god. But it's just the opposite.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In this worldly life where there is no ownership, where there is nothing, one has come here as a guest. And so… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“In his groundbreaking book Guns, Germs, and Steel, biologist Jared Diamond poses the question: Why did Old World diseases devastate the New… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in… — Moby Copy Share Image
“She resembled the swallow in the fable who once every thousand years transferred a grain of wheat, in the hope of rearing… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“The whole idea of a unified universe with mathematically regular laws, that was what had been flushed down the toilet; the whole… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“For God said, “In that day on which ye shall eat of it, ye shall die by death.” The Lord, therefore, recapitulating… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“But we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Studying a book that was finished nearly two thousand years ago may appear to some like an interesting but somewhat impractical pursuit.… — John Snyder Copy Share Image
“...Is there a more monstrous thought, a more convincing spectacle, a more patent affirmation of the impotence and madness of the brain?… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years… — Carl Sagan 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate -… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
“The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life… — Marcus Aurelius 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
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
