Quotes about Thousand year

One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment. Votes: 3

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years. Votes: 3

It was as if we'd known each other for a thousand years. Votes: 3

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. Votes: 3

In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest. Votes: 3

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. Votes: 3

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. Votes: 3

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people. Votes: 3

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased. Votes: 3

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased Votes: 3

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth. Votes: 3

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also. Votes: 3

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands. Votes: 3

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age Votes: 3

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential. Votes: 3

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. Votes: 3

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. Votes: 3

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment. Votes: 3

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong. Votes: 3

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life? Votes: 3

I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything. Votes: 3

Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!" Votes: 3

In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment. Votes: 3

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. Votes: 3

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. Votes: 3

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore. Votes: 3

You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan. Votes: 3

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. Votes: 3

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last. Votes: 3

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years. Votes: 3

Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later. Votes: 3

It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. Votes: 3

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years. Votes: 3

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people. Votes: 3

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. Votes: 3

Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time. Votes: 3

The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility. Votes: 3

Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years. Votes: 3

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing. Votes: 3

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years. Votes: 3

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years. Votes: 3

Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years. Votes: 3

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. Votes: 3

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well. Votes: 3

There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death. Votes: 3

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now. Votes: 3

When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found. Votes: 3

Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said. Votes: 3

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man. Votes: 3

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? Votes: 3

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. Votes: 3

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years. Votes: 3

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old. Votes: 3

The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years. Votes: 3

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. Votes: 3

if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years. Votes: 3

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world. Votes: 3

A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory. Votes: 3

Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult. Votes: 3

It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years. Votes: 3

A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years. Votes: 3

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. Votes: 3

If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets. Votes: 3

During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve. Votes: 3

Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years. Votes: 3

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith. Votes: 3

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. Votes: 3

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software." Votes: 3

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God." Votes: 3

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time. Votes: 3

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God. Votes: 3

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out. Votes: 3

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. Votes: 3

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it. Votes: 3

If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years. Votes: 3

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. Votes: 3

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. Votes: 3

The old adage was true; the surest proof of the Faith is that it has survived for two thousand years....in spite of the men that run it. Votes: 3

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. Votes: 3

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese. Votes: 3

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there. Votes: 3

If you look at men's roles for the last thousand years, the desire is fundamental. We want to take care of, provide for, and be of service to... women. Votes: 3

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. Votes: 3

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me. Votes: 3

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. Votes: 3

Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist. Votes: 3

In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive. Votes: 3

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive. Votes: 3

And all along I believed I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more. Votes: 3

A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime andInfinite aftertime: above your headThey close like giant wings, and you are dead. Votes: 3

And on that day when my strength is failing; the end draws near and my time has come. Still my soul will sing Your praise unending ten thousand years and then forevermore Votes: 3

A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions. Votes: 3

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years. Votes: 3

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition. Votes: 3

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. Votes: 3

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. Votes: 3

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song. Votes: 3

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they're so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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.' Votes: 3

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years. Votes: 3

If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one. Votes: 3

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song." Votes: 3

Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff. Votes: 3

Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the writer and his reader, will outlast the novel, by at least a thousand years. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to me. But I was still interested in what he had to say. Votes: 3

Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years. Votes: 3

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever. Votes: 3

Perhaps he's in love with Agatha," she said. "I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA. Votes: 3

Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth. Votes: 3

With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years. Votes: 3

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness. Votes: 3

So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack? Votes: 3

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. Votes: 3

It is really appropriate to call Jesus the word because God spoke him into existence through dozens probably a hundred different people over a four thousand year period of time. The Holy Spirit took these words and impregnated Mary. Votes: 3

This city had been a city for two thousand years, and I could feel that with every step I took. bits of all that time were still here, alive, even if it was just in the form of collective memory. Votes: 3

The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years. Votes: 3

The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event. Votes: 3

You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found. Votes: 3

In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country. Votes: 3

A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference does it make whether women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.' Votes: 3

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. Votes: 3

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years. Votes: 3

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. Votes: 3

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think. Votes: 3

The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. Votes: 3

On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago. Votes: 3

Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue. Votes: 3

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go. Votes: 3

It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term that has conferred social respect on our gender for over a thousand years - that has women up in arms. Votes: 3

Look how far the human race has come in terms of air and space travel in the last hundred years. So in the next couple of thousand years, you've got to believe that we're going to be able to do all kinds of amazing things. Votes: 3

Men said things like peace in our time or an empire that will last a thousand years, and less than half a lifetime later no one even remembered who they were, let alone what they had said or where the mob had buried their ashes. Votes: 3

Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories. Votes: 3

But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, [as] the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare. Votes: 3

When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of a tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God's supreme triumph of good over evil. Votes: 3

It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe. Votes: 3

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century 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. Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But only in the last 200 thousand years has a species arisen that can fathom the laws of nature and build hardware able to signal its presence. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

...an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the first of those thousand years. Why is man alone subject to becoming an imbecile~? Votes: 3

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today. Votes: 3

My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years. Votes: 3

The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine. Votes: 3

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you. Votes: 3

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part. Votes: 3

A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day. Votes: 3

Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again. Votes: 3

A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood by their own conscience, slashing their bellies open and feeding their guts to dogs. Votes: 3

They say there is a kind of flower that blooms only once a century, Then couldn't there be one that flowers only once every thousand years - or once every ten thousand years? Maybe there are and we just don't know it because today is itself that once-in-a-thousand-year moment. Votes: 3

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since. Votes: 3

It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. Votes: 3

I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything. Votes: 3

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. Votes: 3

I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence. Votes: 3

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love. Votes: 3

I buy thousands of books a year. Votes: 2

Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured. Votes: 2

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares. Votes: 2

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. Votes: 2

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400. Votes: 2

Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states. Votes: 2

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds. Votes: 2

At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year. Votes: 2

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. Votes: 2

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters. Votes: 2

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year. Votes: 2

I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year. Votes: 2

For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions. Votes: 2

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year. Votes: 2

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. Votes: 2

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs. Votes: 2

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out. Votes: 2

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home. Votes: 2

I moved out to Los Angeles with the idea of becoming a director, which thousands, if not tens and hundreds of thousands, of people do, every year. It's a very competitive field, of course. I immediately got swept away into the visual side of things, starting with visual effects, and then designing. Votes: 2

What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant. Votes: 2

He had a thousand-year-old stare. Votes: 0

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen? Votes: 0

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert? Votes: 0

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow. Votes: 0

God has a thousand-year calendar with only one day marked on it. It is marked "TODAY". Votes: 0

Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people. Votes: 0

Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album. Votes: 0

Over ten thousand people have signed a petition to recall Governor Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry, that is next year's joke. Votes: 0

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. Votes: 0

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. Votes: 0

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed. Votes: 0

Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party. Votes: 0

Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value. Votes: 0

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises. Votes: 0

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year. Votes: 0

A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them. Votes: 0

For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes. Votes: 0

Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years. Votes: 0

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence. Votes: 0

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls! Votes: 0

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. Votes: 0

Business money reattaches worldwide Deep inside stops the diamond rocks In a million world, billion world, quitrillion world Rap moves on to the year three thousand Votes: 0

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. Votes: 0

The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States. Votes: 0

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history. Votes: 0

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? Votes: 0

What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them. Votes: 0

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal. Votes: 0

Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history? Votes: 0

It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space. Votes: 0