“The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The word hope first appeared in English about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. But what I… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
Perhaps today there is a greater kindness of tone, as there is greater ingenuity of expression to make up for the fact… — Charles Loomis Dana Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“One thing is sure:the idea that each nation is racially pure is a myth, especially a nation with a history of four… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“Within a few thousand years, virtually all of these giants vanished. Of the twenty-four Australian animal species weighing fifty kilograms or more,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“And the stone table was between them, a barrier, but there could be no barrier to the smile that was her answer.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“We smugly assume that we are the tallest humans to ever grace the earth. Quite the contrary. The Cro-Magnon people living thirty… — Arianne Cohen Copy Share Image
“I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at… — John Green Copy Share Image
No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Consider this!” Edmond declared. “It took early humans over a million years to progress from discovering fire to inventing the wheel. Then… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Chen pointed to the cub. "There's your brute." Then he pointed to the pups. "And there's your domestication. For the most part,… — Jiang Rong Copy Share Image
“Lovely One" Lovely one, just as on the cool stone of the spring, the water opens a wide flash of foam, so… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“It is a very thin line between us and the abyss, Will Henry,' he said. 'For most it is like that line… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Now as I stood on the roof of my house, taking in this unexpected view, it struck me how rather glorious it… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“It had been like this forever, thought Domenic Jejeune. For a thousand years and more, men and women had been greeted by… — Steve Burrows Copy Share Image
“This, then, was the Old World on the eve of Columbus’s departure in 1492. For almost half a millennium Christians had been… — David E. Stannard Copy Share Image
“The Greek historian Herodotus, writing over two thousand years ago, produced one of the first descriptions of one culture getting worked up… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
“At the time, I thought my colleague’s views sounded absurdly legalistic: if Christianity had lost all its living and breathing followers in… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I'm running late, but there's always time to scribble weird messages in guest signage books. Also, am I really late? The Catholic… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Ten thousand years ago, humans plus their pets and livestock accounted for about 0.1% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass inhabiting the earth;… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“to those who swear our young are on the road to perdition take comfort in this- every generation has felt somewhat the… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
Why does a state last a thousand years? Why not 999? Why not a thousand and one? What are the events that… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“You do have a thousand years’ seniority, after all.” “A thousand years’ back pay,” said a dock inspector, in an awed voice.” — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“We can start work we won’t see the end of. “Plant sequoias,” urges Wendell Berry: Put your faith in the two inches… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
And all along I believed I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a… — Christina Perri Copy Share Image
I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
