Thousand Years Quotes - Page 26

• The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Years, Two

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.

  Freya Stark

  Years, Two, Yesterday

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.

  Grandma Moses

  Bible, Biblical, Years

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• For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

  Theodore Parker

  Kings, Greatness, Years

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• The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.

  Robert Ardrey

  Reality, Men, Years

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• With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Years, Two

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.76, The Overlook Press

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• If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

  Grace Paley

  Mean, Order, Years

  Grace Paley (2014). “Just As I Thought”, p.163, Macmillan

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• No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should believe His Word with all simplicity. A thousand years means a thousand years; a wolf means a wolf; a lion means a lion. If you read your Bible that way, a child can understand it.

  M. R. DeHaan

  Children, Believe, Mean

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• After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?

  William Benton Clulow

  Philosophy, Years, Two

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.413

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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 were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Years, Environmental

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• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Notebook, Goodbye

  "The Notebook". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 1996.

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• Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

  Edward Abbey

  Kings, Years, Realization

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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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 devoted people to keep it alive.

  John Steinbeck

  Years, People, Dying

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Once There Was a War”, p.23, Penguin

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• It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Happiness, Dark, Years

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• I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Years

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• If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.

  Fred Bodsworth

  Past, Years, Two

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• I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

  Jodie Foster

  Years, Age, Stones

  "Jodie Foster's Golden Globes acceptance speech: Did she come out? Depends on whom you ask". nationalpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death.

  Ann Coulter

  Years, Two, Divinity

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.158, Crown Forum

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• And on that day when my strength is failing; the end draws near and my time has come. Still my soul will sing Your praise unending ten thousand years and then forevermore

  Matt Redman

  Strength, Christian, Years

  Song: 10,000 Reasons

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• In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.

  Jim Rohn

  Country, Past, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 05, 2013

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• How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove men mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Queens, Night

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• Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Encouragement, Giving Up, Communication

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Bluebeard”, p.34, Random House

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• I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

  Jack London

  Song, Heart, Years

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.4442, Delphi Classics

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• Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage.

  Frantz Fanon

  Religious, Latin, Black And White

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• He had a thousand-year-old stare.

  Louise Erdrich

  Years, Staring, Thousand

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