A Thousand Quotes
There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.
People will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But I don't. I might miss playing. That's what I would miss, but I don't miss it, because I am playing.
My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.
Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.
Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.
I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.
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.
If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.
The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.
Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.
What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.
There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.
In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.
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.
The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .
A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.
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.
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be, she wades in insecurity.
I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.
A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.
A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
I've dreamed of this a thousand times before But in my dreams I couldn't love you more I will give you my heart Until the end of time... You're all I need, my love, my Valentine