Top 100 A Thousand Quotes
#1. For the present when backed by the past is a thousand times deeper than the present when it presses so close that you can feel nothing else
Olivia Laing
#2. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
#3. Swathed in an old tweed coat on which the damp had settled like a thousand tiny pearls.
Philip Pullman
#4. She blow em clean over. She suck the grits off the candle and start eating. After while, she smile up at me, say, "How old are you?"
"Aibileen's fifty-three."
Her eyes get real wide. I might as well be a thousand.
Kathryn Stockett
#5. We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I'm just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.
Leonard Cohen
#7. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
Henry David Thoreau
#8. In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.
Phil Dusenberry
#9. A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.
Henry Ford II
#10. I twist my fingers through his hair, press my lips to his cheek. The words tangle in my throat, being born and dying a thousand times. I love you.
Emily Henry
#11. the screen and keyboard account for much of computers' weight. The intelligent part of a computer is a thousand times smaller than a Gucci buckle.
Ted Sargent
#12. You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
Richard Bach
#13. A man can only do a given thing so many times with freshness and spirit--then, no matter what it is, it becomes like an office task. I enjoy cards and whoring, but even cards and whoring can grow boresome. You tup your wife a thousand times and that becomes an office task, too.
Larry McMurtry
#14. He watched you like a man starved for the only thing that could fulfill his hunger."
My eyes popped out and my body flushed about a thousand shades of red. "Oh, wow ...
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#15. One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it.
Andre Soltner
#16. One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine. A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise. A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#17. An Ebola particle is only around eighty nanometres wide and a thousand nanometres long. If it were the size of a piece of spaghetti, then a human hair would be about twelve feet in diameter and would resemble the trunk of a giant redwood tree.
Richard Preston
#18. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Steve Prefontaine
#19. A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
Rumi
#20. It has often been said that we have but one life to live; that is nonsense. If one reads fiction he or she can live a thousand lives, in many parts of the world or in outer space.
Louis L'Amour
#21. In the same way that our actions can be worth more than a thousand words, the words 'I'm sorry . . .' carry enormous weight and value, and can start a process of self-healing and overall healing in any relationship.
Yilda B. Rivera
#22. The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.
William Wordsworth
#23. Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you.
Sylvia Day
#24. A thousand little civilities create tenderness in time.
E. M. Forster
#25. My heart breaks literally into a thousand tiny pieces.
Lilah K. London
#26. And I know the auditorium may be big enough to hold a thousand students, but it's too small to hide just one.
Marieke Nijkamp
#27. Patience is seeing each step as a journey rather than seeing a journey as a thousand steps.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#28. How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#29. The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
Hafez
#30. There were a thousand words for dreams realized and only one common whimper for hopes interrupted.
Susan Meissner
#31. A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#33. It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected to be at least bilingual.
Jacques Barzun
#34. When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations
Bruce Cockburn
#35. Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.
Sissy Spacek
#36. My heart thunders like the hooves of a thousand wild horses.
Leylah Attar
#37. Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#38. In every situation and circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#39. Salt, gathered from the tears of a thousand angels, restraining the essence of Sammael, the Hellhound. The Seed of Destruction. This I can promise, Sammael, for every one of you that falls, two shall arise.
Grigori Rasputin
#41. How many times had I imagined kissing her this way? A thousand nights of pent up desire were released in that kiss, and I knew right then that I would never have enough.
Eve Ferris
#42. In our world of shadows, there is no black and white but a thousand different strokes of light".
Alice Hoffman
#43. Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.
Shawn Mendes
#44. It's not like we have the same brains as people a thousand years ago."
Wait: "Yes we do."
"We have the same hardware, but not the same software.
Robin Sloan
#45. It takes a thousand bricks to build a wall, but only one to tear it down.
Markus W. Lunner
#46. I love you, a thousand times over. And I will never apologize for it.
Renee Ahdieh
#47. Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#48. He's painted himself into a corner and a thousand lazy reporters and ever-so-sincere politicians had rendered the only word that he could use comically melodramatic. 'I think ... Johannes Cabal ... is evil.
Jonathan L. Howard
#50. To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.
Margaret Millar
#51. Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.
Henry Cloud
#52. Disciplining a righteous person once yields better results than disciplining an evil person a thousand times.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#53. Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?
Eric Maisel
#54. Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.
Peter Piot
#55. Not knowing, he said, is a thousand times more horrible than facing your fear.
Jodi Picoult
#56. While executives don't age nearly as fast as athletes do, companies, markets, and technologies change a thousand times faster than the game of football. As
Ben Horowitz
#57. A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
Laini Taylor
#58. A demonstration is more than worth a thousand words.
Michael Scott
#59. Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.
Robert Adams
#60. I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
Duane Michals
#61. In a thousand subtle and unsubtle ways they were reinventing the experience of living on board a boat.
Michael Lewis
#62. Now you're discovering the great secret of great writing: one line of true feeling is worth a thousand pages of clever thinking.
Menna Van Praag
#63. There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
Thomas Carlyle
#64. When searching out a history, sifting through a thousand facts and ten thousand lives, one often uncovers pieces that do not fit.
Julie Berry
#65. stored inside of them, in frigid clouds of nitrogen, are cell lines representing nearly a thousand species.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#66. Don't give up.
I know you've made a thousand attempts to reach your goal, but look at it this way: after repeatedly banging your head against the wall, you ought to be numb enough break through this time.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#67. It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
Sybille Bedford
#68. He planned for his son or daughter to have three or four toys, minimal sports equipment, and a thousand books. He didn't care for the rhymed nonsense of Dr. Seuss, but preferred anything that instilled basic knowledge sets. He could abide a talking animal, but not an inanimate object that spoke.
John Brandon
#69. God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
Giordano Bruno
#70. The language is perpetually in flux: it is a living stream, shifting, changing, receiving new strength from a thousand tributaries, losing old forms in the backwaters of time.
William Strunk Jr.
#71. Finding someone who reads is like dating a thousand souls
Anonymous
#72. Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.
Rumi
#74. Beauty is a primeval phenomenon. It never makes an appearance itself, but is a visible reflection in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind. It is as various as nature herself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#75. And I never started to plow in my life
That some one did not stop in the road
And take me away to a dance or picnic.
I ended up with forty acres;
I ended up with a broken fiddle
And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories,
And not a single regret.
Edgar Lee Masters
#76. i dream a thousand
words before i
sleep.
Cory Basil
#77. Even after seeing you a thousand times
Why is there this ache within my heart?
Avijeet Das
#78. Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He'd have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they beat him into the ground, you think he's dead, but he rises up again and kills another thousand guys.
Mario Puzo
#79. Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.
Gautama Buddha
#80. 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.
V.C. Andrews
#81. You are doing a wonderful job. Parenting is mind-numbingly hard and no one is perfect at it and we'll all jack a thousand parts, yet somehow, against all odds, it will be enough.
Jen Hatmaker
#82. As they were walked closer, Kip saw that his inference was correct: every single person here was a drafter. There had to be eight hundred or a thousand drafters here! "Orholam," Karris breathed. "There must be five hundred drafters here." So I can't count, so what?
Brent Weeks
#83. Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period ...
Daniel Kahneman
#84. Charlotte Yates didn't especially care for music. All that abstract mooning about. Words, that was what moved people. A good play was worth a thousand symphonies.
Magnus Flyte
#85. I'm excited about Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday. It's the feast of a thousand senses, so just eat, eat, eat, eat.
Hannah Hart
#86. A lie by choice will force you to a thousand unavoidable lies.
M.F. Moonzajer
#87. a picture is worth a thousand words.
Belle Ami
#88. Sometimes you're going to have to let one person go a thousand different times, a thousand different ways, and there's nothing pathetic or abnormal about that. You are human.
Heidi Priebe
#89. Who told you that your journey is a thousand miles?
John Lomacang
#90. I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.
Ann Hood
#91. One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
A.B. Simpson
#92. As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown.
Laura Whitcomb
#93. To generate a handful of masterworks, Mozart composed more than 600 pieces before his death at thirty-five, Beethoven produced 650 in his lifetime, and Bach wrote over a thousand.
Adam M. Grant
#94. A smile can express more than a thousand feelings, but to me The Unknown, its the deadliest weapon i was created with and have control over
Ryan Leonard
#95. There's no forsaking what you love
no existential leap
as witnessed here in time and blood
a thousand kisses deep
Leonard Cohen
#96. Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#97. One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches.
Harold Klemp
#98. A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.
Michael Eisner
#99. Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
Jack Welch
#100. I will keep fighting for you," Ash said in a low, intense voice. "Do what you must. I'll be here, whatever you decide. If it takes one year or a thousand, I will keep you safe.
Julie Kagawa
