Thousand Years Quotes - Page 23

• Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Beautiful, Stupid, Men

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• One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Years, Moments, Year One

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• We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Art, Drama, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation.

  Dave Barry

  Real, School, Two

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• ... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Dream, Night, Years

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• God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.

  Joseph Bayly

  Years, People, Tonight

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• Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

  Sinclair Lewis

  Men, Years, Thousand

  "The God-Seeker". Book by Sinclair Lewis. Chapter 33, 1949.

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• I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hero, Two, Knowing

  Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

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• We have organizations, whether it is ISIS or Al Qaida, who do believe we should go back several thousand years. We should make women third-class citizens, that we should allow children to be sexually assaulted. They are a danger to modern society.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Believe, Isis

  "Obama: Paris attacks a 'sickening setback' in fight vs. ISIS". "The Five" with Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. November 16, 2015.

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• Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

  David Mamet

  Self Confidence, Years, Skills

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.103, Vintage

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• For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

  George S. Patton

  Horse, Children, War

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• The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.

  James Frey

  Book, Years, Two

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• I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Cities, Order

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• When you say something, say it not for a specific day, not for a specific era, not for a specific country, but say it for all the days, for all the eras and for all the countries. Speak universal, and thus you don't have to speak thousands times; you speak once and you will be heard even ten thousand years later!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Years, Eras

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• I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Life Is, Used

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• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Angel, Long Ago

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• I hope that I live for a thousand years, and have a thousand daughters so that there will always be a woman who can curse your name.

  Lauren Kate

  Daughter, Years, Names

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• I waited two thousand years for you, Grace Alexander,” he whispered in her ear. “And you were worth every second of it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Years, Two, Grace

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.304, Macmillan

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• I am black,” she said, and a shudder rippled through me. “I am foul with a thousand years of demon curses. Don’t cross me or I will bring you and your house down. Rachel is the only clean thing I have, and you won’t sully her to further your high ideas.

  Kim Harrison

  Years, Ideas, House

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• I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.

  Kim Harrison

  Years, Odd, Microwaves

  Kim Harrison (2010). “Every Which Way But Dead”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Stars, Years, Wings

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pale Fire”, p.32, Vintage

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• The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years.

  John Green

  Jobs, Fighting, Animal

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• In a moment we lost our minds hereand lay our spirits down.Today we lived a thousand years,all we have is now.

  Edward Kowalczyk

  Years, Mind, Today

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• Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all about living and in this world it was about surviving.

  Miles Millar

  Wall, Past, Talking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Couple, Party

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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