A Thousand Quotes

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

Kids win this'n'that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand's worth watchin', one out of a million's worth coffee and doughnuts.

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

The celebration of one success launches a thousand more.

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems.

The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand

Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

We now live in a country with a thousand political prisoners, a country where each week there are new trials, where people are put in jail because they liked something on the Internet.

The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.

Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.

Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.

There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions.

Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

A smile can heal a thousand wounds.

A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I think they give a correct impression.

If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.

You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.

My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

If you look at the current Mosul campaign against ISIL, for example the few thousand troops that we have there to support that effort allows the Iraqi military to move forward in an effective way.

One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.

Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

I'm one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

We all think we have our personal favorites. But when I say, "People shouldn't steal - is it true?" Everyone in a room of, let's say, a thousand people all raise their hands and say, "That's true."