Famous Thousand Years Lines
476 Thousand Years quotes by 371 unique authors
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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in…
— Angela Carter
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Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on…
— Thomas Wolfe
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Perhaps he's in love with Agatha," she said. "I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but…
— Cassandra Clare
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one…
— Hendrik Hertzberg
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The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and…
— John Steinbeck
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Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him,…
— Rebecca West
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and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that…
— James Frey
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We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating your race that…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people…
— Sinclair Lewis
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Were you raised in a barn? You don't just walk into someone's house." Ash laughed. "I have an open invitation to enter whenever I'm here."…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Zombieland reference," Jon said, nodding. "How do you know that? That's a thousand-year-old reference!" I looked at laura. "I can't think of a single movie…
— MaryJanice Davidson
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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth…
— Charles Colson
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There were words for what he meant to me, but if I studied every language ever spoken for the next thousand years, I still wouldn’t…
— Jeaniene Frost
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My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also,…
— Chaim Potok
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When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor…
— Mark Gatiss
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After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain…
— Anton Chekhov
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I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years.…
— Kathryn Stockett
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We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
— George Orwell
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Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one’s life, but of the quality of one’s life. True…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and…
— John Green
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A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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