Events Quote by Norman Davies

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

— Lord Byron

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

— Emile Chartier

The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions -…

— Boris Johnson

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

— James R. Thompson

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

— Salman Rushdie

All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot…

— Francois Rabelais

The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done

— Jeet Thayil

The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous…

— Adolf Hitler

It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred…

— Carl Sagan

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your…

— Neil Gaiman

When you pick up an inch of the present to move it, you also pick up several thousand years of history.

— Gordon R Dickson

The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend…

— Hugh Miller