Thousand Years Quotes - Page 22

• Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Past, Errors, Years

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.282, Faber & Faber

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• All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite...Upon a night of earthquake he builds a thousand years of pleasant habitations for man. Upon the sorrow of an infant he raises oftentimes from human intellects glorious vintages that could not else have been.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Night, Men, Years

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• But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the past few thousand years, we have lost our vulnerability to disease and cold and wild animals, but we have also lost good ways to bring up children, look after old people, stave off diabetes and heart disease and understand the real dangers of everyday life.

  Jared Diamond

  Children, Real, Heart

  "Jared Diamond: what we can learn from tribal life" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2013.

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• You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.

  Margaret Sullavan

  Years, Hollywood, Thousand

  "Child of Fate - Margaret Sullavan". Book by Lawrence J. Quirk (p. 77), 1986.

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• The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.

  Imre Lakatos

  Years, Two, Confusion

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.

  Hendrik Verwoerd

  Israel, Years, States

  "Worlds apart" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2006.

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• Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything-fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists.

  John Lennon

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono". Book by David Sheff, G. Barry Golson, St. Martin's Griffin, pp. 112-113, 2000.

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• [History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Years, History, Curiosity

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• When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.

  George Harrison

  Sleep, Years, Demand

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• We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Travel, Ocean

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.174

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• Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Years, America

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• Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Years, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1113, Manonmani Publishers

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• What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?

  Don DeLillo

  Lonely, Eye, Mean

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Body Artist”, p.59, Pan Macmillan

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• We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard as it was a thousand years ago.

  Steven Dietz

  Art, Years, Play

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• Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Years, Civilization

  "One". Book by Richard Bach, 1988.

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• Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand years, and tower far above our mortal heads. As such they are symbols and keepers of unlimited power, longevity, and timelessness. An untouched forest, studded with trees of all ages, sizes and types, is more than a mysterious, magical place - it is one of the energy reservoirs of nature. Within its boundaries stand ancient and new sentinels, guardians of the universal force which has manifested on the the Earth. . . .

  Scott Cunningham

  Vegetables, Years, Long

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• The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you!

  W. Ian Thomas

  Christian, Jesus, Years

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• No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Heart, Virginia, Years

  "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897.

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• Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark;
  Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us?
  Jewelry sold to pay this trip across the seas,
  Cut off from my family I leave my native land.
  Unbinding my feet I clean out a thousand years of poison,
  With heated heart arouse all women's spirits.
  Alas, this delicate kerchief here
  Is half stained with blood, and half with tears.

  Qiu Jin

  Heart, Dark, Cutting

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• I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

  Billy Sunday

  Heart, Years, Two

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1914). “Salesman's Prospectus for "Billy" Sunday: The Man and His Message, with His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.

  Ruth Reichl

  Years, Knives, Kitchen

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• Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

  Moby

  Yawning, Years, Sea

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• Maybe sometimes things come to you that you never, in a thousand years, would have included. But they strike a chord, so grab it. Trust your ability to know what's true to it and what would carry you off into outer space.

  Joan Tewkesbury

  Years, Space, Sometimes

  Interview with Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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• A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Sheep, Years

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• Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once.

  Rory Bremner

  Years, Waiting, Doe

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