Thousand Years Quotes
476 Thousand Years quotes by 371 unique authors
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Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it…
— Walt Whitman
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What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects…
— E. O. Wilson
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In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a…
— Stefan Zweig
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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 second it takes…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it?…
— Meher Baba
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To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize…
— Robert Harris
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We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars…
— Thornton Wilder
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So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith…
— Wendell Berry
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But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that…
— J D Salinger
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An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining…
— Donald Hall
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We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told,…
— David Eddings
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So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so ready the other…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in…
— Thomas Wolfe
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about…
— Marguerite Duras
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O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to…
— Douglas Adams
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand…
— Edward Abbey
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So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure…
— Joseph Heller
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