A Thousand Quotes

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.

I'm responsible for a hundred thousand people across Australia as well and I want to keep them gainfully employed. I want to give them opportunity to grow, I want to give them opportunity to develop.

She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.

And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot." She raised her hand. "Don't." "It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded.

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.

If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.

I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to me.

When I look in the mirror, I see about a thousand different Jadas.

Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness

My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

There were words for what he meant to me, but if I studied every language ever spoken for the next thousand years, I still wouldn’t find enough of them to describe it.

His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was way too many and a thousand never enough.

One corpse, extra crispy! Do I hear a thousand dollars?

The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

My rule is if one person says it, a thousand people want to say it. That goes for compliments too. I try to balance it out in my head.

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

Our fundraising went up about a thousand percent and that's largely been sustained.

Weight Watchers says nothing tastes better than thin feels. I can think of a thousand things that taste better than thin feels.

It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.

A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.

What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.

A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.

The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not.

Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.

For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.

Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!