A Thousand Quotes
People reside within qi and qi resides within people. From heaven and earth down to the ten thousand things, each one requires qi to live.
I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.
I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.
I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.
Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.
I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.
The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.
Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.
Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.
I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.
He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.
With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
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.
Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on.
Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions.
Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.
In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. "Bread." they clamored. "Bread, Bread!
The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.
Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.
And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.
Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.
A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.
Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.
Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.