Third Millennium Quotes

#1. The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive?

Martin Rees

#2. Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense.

Julian Jaynes

#3. If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

Robert Muller

#4. But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.

Mark Steyn

#5. An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity.

E. O. Wilson

#6. The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

Arthur C. Clarke

#7. The time of the third millennium is the time when the people of God will walk, covered by
God's glory, performing great wonders and miracles.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. The third millennium is the third day in the calendar of God's time.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.

Anton Chekhov

#10. Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

Matt Mullenweg

#11. First Emma. Now Thad. Regin was sick and tired of non-evil vampiric creatures messing with her millennium's worth of scathing animosity for their species...

Kresley Cole

#12. Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

Kajol

#13. World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Ban Ki-moon

#14. The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.

Kevin Watkins

#15. Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.

Pat Robertson

#16. In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.

Edward Forbes

#17. The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.

Kelly Jones

#18. If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015 ... The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?

Thoraya Obaid

#19. Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.

Nostradamus

#20. When you're dying in America, at the end of the millennium, you're not alone

Jonathan Larson

#21. In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

Tony Blair

#22. Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

Carl Lewis

#23. By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.

Kurt Eichenwald

#24. Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.

John Malkovich

#26. Bernice III was the first queen of Egypt to rule without a consort in over a millennium. Though her reign was brief, her example inspired her descendant Cleopatra to rule alone.

Kris Waldherr

#27. The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.

Carl Sagan

#28. Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#29. I said from the start I had to be trustful of the Millennium universe. It was not going to be a Stieg Larsson book, but my interpretation of his iconic characters and universe.

David Lagercrantz

#30. Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC ... The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade and the coldest of the millennium ... which is why 'global warming' is now called 'climate change.'

Richard Keen

#31. Jeff Sachs has the Millennium Villages. He spends $2.5 million in one village. It's an absolutely ridiculous model, because I've said that if you gave me $2.5 million, I can train 100 grandmothers, solar electrify 100 villages - 10,000 houses - and save you 100,000 litres of kerosene.

Bunker Roy

#32. In this millennium that we live in, the 'Hack-a-Shaq'has proven not to work. It might work a couple games every now and then, but when it comes to the playoffs or a championship series, it doesn't work - not at all.

Shaquille O'Neal

#33. I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance.

Ruth Ozeki

#34. Although member countries ratified the UN's millennium goals, fighting enemies represents by far the biggest allocation of most countries' resources.

Joyce F Benenson

#35. The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

Rand Beers

#36. Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.

Joseph Jarman

#37. Not even the most powerful Natural in a millennium had seen him coming.

Kami Garcia

#38. Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Booth Tarkington

#39. The Millennium Falcon rose.

Alan Dean Foster

#40. Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisted - a discussion point in the nature vs nurture debate which had not died in half a millennium.

Neal Asher

#41. Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.

Herman Melville

#42. A millennium without air or light pollution made for pitch-black skies. The stars didn't just appear anymore. They exploded. Diamonds on black velvet. You couldn't tear your eyes away.

Blake Crouch

#43. A new millennium requires new methods of ministry.

Sunday Adelaja

#44. Our new millennium began, and it seemed a little bit possible--though surely if we examined the thought too closely, it would evaporate--that a brighter time might be ahead; we have, after all, the round, clean slate of the new number, the row of zeros after the initial digit in 2000.

Mark Doty

#45. It's hard to take sex ed seriously when the teachers haven't even wiggled their stuff in this millennium.

Amber Kizer

#46. Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.

Robert H. Schuller