A Thousand Quotes

The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

Cath couldn't stop thinking about Levi and his ten thousand smiles.

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.

You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what... I feel inside me.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

I have died everyday, waiting for you.

He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.

The worst job I ever had was as a forensicologist for the United Nations. One time I thought I'd come across the mass grave of a thousand snowmen, but it turns out it was just a field of carrots.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.

I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!

One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.

A thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah's smile

For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him

We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

Love had a thousand shapes.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.

The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.

The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.

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.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

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

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.