Thousand Years Quotes - Page 9

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

Ezra Stiles

Country, Government, Years

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The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.

Joanna Southcott

Hands, Years, Earth

Joanna Southcott (1810). “The prophecies of Joanna Southcott, relating to the dreadful judgments that will fall on this nation in the present year, 1810. Selected and animadverted on by R. Hann”, p.11

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God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

August Strindberg

Book, Writing, Heart

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In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?

Mikhail Bulgakov

Men, Order, Years

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You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.

Standing Bear

Brother, Children, Father

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It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh, who was also known as Khufu, lived between 2589 and 2566 BC, or one thousand years before the Hyksos (Levites) were ever heard of.

Michael Tsarion

Khufu, Years, Pyramids

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It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy, and you'd be unhappy if you didn't. Wouldn't it be ridiculous after being so busy here if you wound up in Heaven with nothing to do but sit on a cloud playing a harp for a thousand years?-Much less all eternity! I think you'd really get bored.

David Berg

Thinking, Years, Cities

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From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.

Justus von Liebig

Science, Light, Years

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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

Alexander Pope

Years, Years Ago, Thousand

Alexander Pope (1872). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and explanatory notes. The text ed. by C.C. Clarke”, p.171

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I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years.

David Bowie

Baby, Years, Sticks

Song: Golden Years, 1976

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One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.

Saint Francis de Sales

Years, Worldly Life, Devotion

Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.322, Catholic Way Publishing

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Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Years, Two, Political

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In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.

Adam Lindsay Gordon

Years, Forget, Trouble

Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”

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If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

Hafez

Patience, Years, Desire

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I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.

Naguib Mahfouz

Islamic, Son, Years

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'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did he say 'strive'? Because it is not possible for us to become holy and to be saints in an hour! We must therefore progress from modest beginnings toward holiness and purity. Even were we to spend a thousand years in this life we should never perfectly attain it. Rather we must always struggle for it every day, as if mere beginners.

Symeon the New Theologian

Christian, Struggle, Men

Saint Symeon (the New Theologian) (1980). “Symeon New Theologian”, p.91, Paulist Press

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One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.

George Edward Woodberry

Art, Light, Expression

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What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number." With a bit of prodding as to what kind of study they mean, you may be able to induce them to come up with the description "the science of numbers." But that is about as far as you will get. And with that you will have obtained a description of mathematics that ceased to be accurate some two and a half thousand years ago!

Keith Devlin

Mean, Years, Two

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It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

Thomas Jefferson

Inspirational, Years, Thousand

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If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.

Xunzi

Years, Two, Wish

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The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.

Derek Jarman

Christian, Men, Epidemics

Derek Jarman (1993). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.

John Shelby Spong

Gay, Past, Years

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But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of navigation. After the flood the ark seems to have been soon forgotten, or at least imperfectly remembered, and men reverted to their little canoes and clumsy boats, which sufficed for all their limited wants. It was not until about a thousand years later in the world

R. M. Ballantyne

Men, Years, Sailing

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You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

Burton Cummings

Years, Bob, Dylan

"Canada Inside Out". Book by David Olive, 2012.

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One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

Geoff Davis

Years, Ideas, Two

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