A Thousand Quotes

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

Do something bad a thousand times and it's no big deal. Everyone just goes, "Willie f - up again."

The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

Along the road you travel, may the miles be a thousand times more lovely than lonely.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you!

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

[The crowd] will finally succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times.

Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

Do you think Christianity could have lasted for nearly two thousand years on its promises unless the Lord could deliver on them?

Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.

One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

I'm not a big one for jokes. I can't tell a joke, believe it or not. If you gave me a thousand bucks and said, "Don, get up at a party and tell a joke," I'm the worst.

Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

A word is worth a thousand images.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.