Thousand Years Quotes - Page 6

• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Army, Blue

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.16, Fordham Univ Press

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• Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

  George Henry Lewes

  Life, Beauty, Wisdom

  'A Spanish Drama' ch. 2

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• Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

  Dalai Lama

  Years, People, Lasts

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• If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

  David Hilbert

  Years, Would Be, Awakening

  "Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers". Book by Calvin C. Clawson, p. 258, 1999.

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• While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

  John Adams

  Government, Years, Political

  "An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840". Book by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley, 2010.

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• The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

  Alan Watts

  Morning, Heart, Years

  "The essence of Alan Watts".

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• If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Years, Doubt

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

  John Green

  Time, School, Winter

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.18, A&C Black

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• There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land.

  Katherine Dunn

  Men, Texas, Years

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.199, Vintage

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• A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Running, Heart, Men

  "Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West". Book by Cormac McCarthy, Chapter II, 1985.

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• The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant - but waiting a few hundred thousand years for neurons to sprout into our brains - ones capable of having us create emotional relationships with other members of our species. We thereby double our biomass not by getting bigger, but by creating an ally.

  John Medina

  Emotional, Years, Elephants

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We got latched together and I was hoping you could separate us? (Amanda) They were made by your stepfather. Any chance you have a key lying around? (Kyrian) I guess I shouldn't be surprised. At least this time she's not an Amazon princess with an irate mother demanding parts of your body be removed. Two thousand years later, and you're still getting into unbelievable messes. (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Lying, Princess

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• I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian) Well, you're never too old to learn. (Amanda) You can't teach an old dog new tricks. (Kyrian) There's no time like the present. (Amanda) Time is of the essence. (Kyrian) God helps those who help themselves. (Amanda) You're not going to let me win this, are you? (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Winning, Years

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• You know, I've walked this earth for over eleven thousand years, my lady. I have seen things in my life that are unimaginable to you, and you ask me if I doubt you? Lady, I doubt the very air you breathe. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Air, Years, Doubt

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• What are you doing here? (Artemis) I wanted to thank you for what you did tonight, but as I considered that, it dawned on me that you have never once in eleven thousand years done anything for me for free. The sheer fear factor of that realization alone has made me come seeking you. So what gives? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Years, Giving, Tonight

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Seize The Night”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Years, Ideas, People

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• If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.

  Meister Eckhart

  Spring, Live Life, Years

  Meister Eckhart, Edmund Colledge, Bernard McGinn (1981). “Meister Eckhart (CWS)”, p.184, Paulist Press

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• Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night, and we watch television.

  Paul Hawken

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  "You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring". Paul Hawken's commencement speech at University of Portland in Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Years, Long

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• He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hands, Years, History

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• We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible.

  Sam Harris

  Philosophical, Years, Two

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• From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Crush, Suicide, Military

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• Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.

  Leon Uris

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, 'Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not?' But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Hero, Technology

  Interview with Joshua Quittner, www.wired.com. September 01, 1994.

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• Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster. No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.

  Carl Sagan

  Years, Survival, Answers

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