Thousand Years Quotes - Page 17

• You can’t be a rational person six days a week and on one day of the week, go to a building, and think you are drinking the blood of a two thousand year old space god. That doesn’t make you a person of faith…, that makes you a schizophrenic.

  Bill Maher

  Drinking, Thinking, Blood

  5 Copy quote

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

  Jeet Thayil

  Fire, Years, Bombs

  4 Copy quote

• Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is lost when a monarchy is abolished. If buckingham palace and windsor castle were transformed into museums, if one politician competed against another for president of the republic, Britain would be a sadder and less interesting place. Our politicians are not men such as could challenge more than a thousand years of history.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Men, Museums, Years

  20 Copy quote

• Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

  Edward Abbey

  Years, Anarchy, Thousand

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

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would have understood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours, and all nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, not a twentieth part of the people of the earth know anything of it, and among those who do, the wiser part do not believe it.

  Thomas Paine

  Jesus, Believe, Character

  Thomas Paine (1858). “The works of Thomas Paine: a hero in the American revolution”, p.272

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Years, Needs

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, Two, Historical

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a Single day.

  Robert E. Lee

  Prayer, Mean, Hands

  38 Copy quote

• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Years, Humanity

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 50), 1986.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Were you somebody different a thousand years ago? Will you be somebody different a thousand years from now? What is this One Self that is forever your own deepest being? Must you believe the lies of time? Must you swallow the insanity that One Spirit does not exist? Can you show me your Original Face, of which there is One and Only One in all the entire World?

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Believe, Self

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.342, Shambhala Publications

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

  Richard Bach

  Years, Two, Imagination

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.113, Delta

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• The mystery of the Holy Night, which historically happened two thousand years ago, must be lived as a spiritual event in the 'today' of the Liturgy," the Pope clarified. "The Word who found a dwelling in Mary's womb comes to knock on the heart of every person with singular intensity this Christmas.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christmas, Spiritual, Heart

  11 Copy quote

• Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

  David Koepp

  Science, Years, Vastness

  16 Copy quote

• The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

  Robert Ardrey

  Stars, Science, Men

  "African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man". Book by Robert Ardrey, 1961.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, War, Believe

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

  Charles Galton Darwin

  Science, Animal, Men

  11 Copy quote

• Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.

  Frank J. Prial

  Drinking, Wine, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual-I would say divine-creation... Rudolf Hess, my assistant of many years standing, would tell you: If we have such a leader, God is with us.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Unique, Years

  Richard Breiting, Adolf Hitler (1971). “Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and waterfalls. The manifold voices of falling water Take all night. Wrapped in your down bag Starlight on you cheeks and eyelids Your breath comes and goes In a tiny cloud in the frosty night. Ten thousand birds sing in the sunrise. Ten thousand years revolve without change. All this will never be again.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Time, Fall, Moon

  Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Taken, Past

  6 Copy quote

• No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strength, Perseverance, Years

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.649, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Peace, War, Years

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Years

  Speech in House of Commons, 18 June 1940

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Years, Cities, Rivers

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source