A Thousand Quotes

There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.

One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

Kellyanne's [Conway] pointing out, you people say we don't have a mandate? You don't have a [Democratic] party. You've lost a thousand legislative seats. You only have five states.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together.

In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.

We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

Theres a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.

To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.

If I have to remove one to save ten, I'll do it in a heartbeat. If I have to waterboard somebody to save a thousand people, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

I do not need a thousand souls, I only need one, which is my master's.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

A thousand approaches lie open to death.

For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.

Don't you know yet that men are full of words that mean nothing? The silence of a woman is a thousand times weightier. You must learn to trust silence. To load it with truth, and to wait.

Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.

I waited two thousand years for you, Grace Alexander,” he whispered in her ear. “And you were worth every second of it.

The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)

There is more than one kind of death? (Kat) Yes. Cowards aren’t the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes do, too. (Sin)

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

Sometimes a person can say I'm sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.

You live a thousand lives when you read a thousand books.

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.

Well there were other Maharajis, so Neem Karoli Baba was his technical name, like there are a thousand Lamas called Rinpoche.

So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sounds about a thousand years old when she speaks. "Whatever it takes to break you.

You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.

The road to gooď is the roughest and steepest in the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder that so many fall. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.

I don't believe there's more than one human man or woman in a thousand who can think internationally, and until the majority can I don't see any hope of lasting peace.

History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.