Thousand Years Quotes - Page 21

• Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Fall, Years, Magic

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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• Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Years, Mind, Three

  'A Taste of Honey' (1959) act 1, sc. 2

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• At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men

  Orson Pratt

  Children, Men, Rights

  Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”, p.21

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• As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.

  George R. Stewart

  Running, War, Fate

  George R. Stewart (1993). “Earth Abides”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait.

  Doug Rader

  Years, Waiting, Thousand

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• The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.

  C. S. Lewis

  Years, Care, Next

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• Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas seem to circulate around. I think it is important to somehow push or stretch or emphasize, in as many ways as I can, the sheer bulk, shape, heaviness, the juices, the actual structure of the body. Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

  Peter Greenaway

  Artist, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the indifference because any one would.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Years, Lasts, Faces

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1896). “The Shadow Christ: An Introduction to Christ Himself”

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• If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

  Johannes Tauler

  Heart, Men, Years

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• It seems that England's royal family is running out of money. They are down to just $1.6 million. Well sure, that's what happens when nobody in your family has had a job for the last thousand years.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Jobs, Years

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• Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.

  Wilhelm II

  Kings, Fall, Taken

  "Hun Speech". Address in Bremerhaven to the German Expeditionary Force Prior to its Departure for China, germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org. July 27, 1900.

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• One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

  Pope Pius XII

  Years, Two, Enough

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• Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Success, Wall

  Quoted in Faulkner in the University, ed. Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner (1959)

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• I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

  Walt Whitman

  Leadership, Men, Years

  Walt Whitman (2014). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.417, Melville House

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• Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world

  Annie Laurie Gaylor

  Encouragement, Jesus, Real

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• The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.

  Marina Warner

  Children, Two, Years

  Marina Warner (2016). “Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary”, p.33, Oxford University Press

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• We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Ignorance, Years, Trying

  "'Penn&Teller: Bullshit' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.

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• Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Morning, Years, Tree

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• We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.

  Al Gore

  Gratitude, Optimistic, Years

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• The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Years, Long

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.30, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Men, Past, Two

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• How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?

  Christina Perri

  Fall

  Song: A Thousand Years, Pt. 2

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• Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Reading, Years, Two

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• I don't make a Bible argument in the ad, nor have I made a bible argument in the public space. My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

  Gary Bauer

  Mother, Children, Father

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• A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Years, Christianity, Friars

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