A Thousand Quotes

Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers

Life is a series of a thousand tiny miracles.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?

There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

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

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

A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

Women love money. You give them a couple thousand bucks and they’re happy.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.

A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.

When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence

Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before.

Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness.

I remember my first check that I got for a thousand dollars, and where I grew up, I never thought I'd have a thousand dollars at one time.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence

The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.