A Thousand Quotes

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers

A tear that runs down a believer's cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth

General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension.

God has a thousand-year calendar with only one day marked on it. It is marked “TODAY”.

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!

A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.

Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.