A Thousand Quotes

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

Women initiate most domestic violence, yet out of a thousand cases of domestic violence, maybe one is involving a man. And this has made a victim of culture out of women.

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves

In a moment we lost our minds hereand lay our spirits down.Today we lived a thousand years,all we have is now.

Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.

The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.

One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.

In my dreams, I kill him every night,' Robert admitted. 'A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves'.

One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

It seems that England's royal family is running out of money. They are down to just $1.6 million. Well sure, that's what happens when nobody in your family has had a job for the last thousand years.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.

There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.

He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner.

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

Let one thousand flowers bloom.

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.

Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.

Stamford Bridge holds 42,000. So ten per cent of that would be about 4.1 thousand

You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.

The problem is we bear grudges that go a thousand years into the past. Really, I could find people who begrudge the Greeks for doing awful things to the Bulgarians more than a thousand years ago.

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.

His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.

USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.