Top 100 A Thousand Times Quotes
#1. The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
Anne Campbell
#2. Still, it's almost too natural to rekindle Jongin's smile with a tiny "Hello," and somehow the syllables are perfect on his tongue, perhaps because he's said it a thousand times already. Perhaps because they're meant to be.
Changdictator
#4. 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.
Augustus De Morgan
#5. Think a thousand times when you get a bad though, but not once when you get a good one.
Dreamer
#6. The writer understands how deeply mysterious the 'familiar' really is. How strangely opaque, what we've seen a thousand times. And how inconsolable a loss, when the taken-for-granted is finally taken from us.
Joyce Carol Oates
#7. A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
Stendhal
#8. A plot is a thousand times more unsettling than an argument, which may be answered.
Eudora Welty
#9. Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times
Martin Luther
#10. That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.
Francois Fenelon
#11. It was all too easy. It was perfect as nothing else in her life had ever been, their bodies moving in harmony as if they had waltzed together a thousand times before. Good Lord, he could dance.
-Lillian's thoughts about Marcus
Lisa Kleypas
#12. There's a bitter cold in me, a cold which comes from a distant land. And nothing ever really makes it warm. You knew of this cold. You tried a thousand times to melt it, and transform it to something more brilliant, but you never succeeded.
Anne Rice
#13. You have been walking the water's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, deeper, under a thousand times deeper. Love flows down.
Rumi
#14. She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#15. Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.
Leslie Mann
#16. He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. 'For you a thousand times over!' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner.
Khaled Hosseini
#17. Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
Aimee Mullins
#18. 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,'
Sallie Krawcheck
#19. A thousand times a coward and not once a dead man
Suad Amiry
#20. The hallucinations are innumerable. That's what has always been the matter with me, in fact: no belief in history, obliviousness of principles. I shall say no more about this: poets and visionaries would be jealous. I am a thousand times the richest, let's be as miserly as the sea.
Arthur Rimbaud
#22. Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
Elie Wiesel
#23. Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.
Ernest Hemingway,
#24. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings. Hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more ... There is infinite life before the soul. Take your time and you will achieve your end.
Swami Vivekananda
#25. I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive
would that I could live a thousand times!
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#26. When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me. - John Wesley
John Wesley
#27. Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it's a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#28. I could kill you a thousand times over Abraham, but we would never be even. You took everything I had.
Christopher Buecheler
#29. He seemed to read her thoughts easily, as if she were a treasured volume he had paged through a thousand times.
Lisa Kleypas
#30. One who falls a hundred times,
and rises, is a warrior.
One who falls a thousand times,
and rises, is a champion.
One who falls countless times,
and rises, is a conqueror.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#31. My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
Bruce Willis
#32. A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate. The
Sidney Sheldon
#33. It was something they'd done a thousand times before. If Jamie went surfing with a mate and paddled in first, he always took time for that final wave. And there was something so familiar in the ritual that for a moment he felt like everything was right.
He felt forgiven.
Kirsty Eagar
#34. Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.
Jenny Han
#35. General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension.
Emilio Aguinaldo
#36. I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
Robert Byrd
#37. Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.
Anita Shreve
#38. A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.
Kin Hubbard
#39. I'm going to spend every night of my life kissing away your memories of him. I'm going to find places he never kissed and our first times will be a thousand times sweeter than your first times with him. Isabel you are the love of my life. -Alex Ailey
Christine Brae
#40. Swing ten times,
and you may hit once.
Swing a hundred times,
and you may hit ten times.
Swing a thousand times,
and you may hit a hundred times.
Swing a thousand times,
and you may hit a thousand times.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. I'm speaking from personal experience when I say of any black man who conks today, or any white-wigged black woman, that if they gave the brains in their heads just half as much attention as they do their hair, they would be a thousand times better off.
Malcolm X
#42. If he stayed at home and carried on with his normal life he would be a thousand times superior to these people and could get any of them out of his way just with a kick.
Franz Kafka
#43. I would lose him a thousand lifetimes over if it meant I got the chance to love him a thousand times. And have him love me back.
If only for a little while.
A.J. Compton
#44. And then she kissed him," he murmurs, "and all manner of thought left his head. It was a kiss he had dreamed about, but it was a thousand times better than his dreams. And he was ruined in all the best ways ... and he'd never be the same again.
Beth Michele
#45. Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.
Leigh Bardugo
#46. And you will keep breaking my heart a thousand times. And I will keep joining the pieces back a thousand times.
Avijeet Das
#47. Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
Hakuin Ekaku
#48. When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.
Elvis Presley
#49. Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Richard Bach
#50. In my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times.
Lionel Richie
#51. It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.
Louis Armstrong
#52. You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times.
Kenny Wormald
#53. I need you a hundred times more than I need my next breath, a thousand times more than I need my next heartbeat, and a million times more than I need to wake up to the sun hanging in the sky.
Gail McHugh
#54. Pro te, milies aeterno. He placed my hand on his heart. And that means? For you, a thousand times eternity.
Tyra Lynn
#55. Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.
Swami Vivekananda
#56. It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before.
Robert Lynd
#57. To be honest with one's emotions is a thousand times better than to silent about what one doesn't feel.
Aporva Kala
#58. A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.
Bernard Ramm
#59. My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it.
Etta James
#60. What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.
Klaus Barbie
#61. True love is being so in love that you run out of ways to say it. True love is having to google new and creative ways to say I love you because just saying it a thousand times a day isn't enough.
Sharon Swan
#62. There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#63. There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil
improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"
"Are you a young lady?"
"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.
Charlotte Bronte
#64. The dawn came up entirely gold, with no hint of pink or purple. The sky was a rinsed blue, like an old shirt washed a thousand times.
Lee Child
#65. As everyone knows, it is a thousand times easier to reconstruct the facts of what happened at a certain time than its intellectual atmosphere. The atmosphere is reflected not in official events but, most conspicuously, in small, personal episodes...
Stefan Zweig
#66. Greater in combat Than a person who conquers A thousand times a thousand people Is the person who conquers herself.
Gil Fronsdal
#67. One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
Gautama Buddha
#68. Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou!
Michael Moorcock
#69. GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.
Barbara Kruger
#70. A charm of Goldfinches swooped in and settled on a stand of thistles, pecking at the down. It was a scene Jejeune had seen a thousand times on calendar pages, one of the most picturesque in nature. It still gave him a frisson of delight and he paused for a moment before speaking. p. 147
Steve Burrows
#71. In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.
John Kricfalusi
#72. You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper!
Rumi
#73. Look in his eyes. He has died a thousand times these last moments...You defeated him utterly the moment you saw fear in his eyes. All else is redundancy.
Nathan Long
#74. Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.
Martin Luther
#75. It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
Travis Tritt
#76. A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
Fred Allen
#77. Death is the midwife of very great things ... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God.
Paracelsus
#78. For you, a thousand times over. Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything alright. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. But I'll take it. With open arms.
Khaled Hosseini
#79. You're seeing something that you've seen a thousand times and you just like it. There's nothing wrong with that but it's not a revelation. It's not a surprise. It's comfort.
Lucy Corin
#80. Have faith in life, a thousand times faith. By driving out despair, you will move away from death.
Elie Wiesel
#81. Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#82. But I am telling you: I would prefer a thousand times over a bruised Church to an ill Church!
Pope Francis
#83. Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds
Lawrence Durrell
#84. And he will kiss me again, I thought, almost dizzy at the wonder of it. He will kiss me a thousand times more, and in a thousand ways.
Zoe Marriott
#85. I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together.
Why did I do it? And would I do it again?
It was I, you see, who ended it.
Nicholas Sparks
#86. Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.
Smith Wigglesworth
#87. My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.
Jim Goad
#88. The time to be upset is during the race, when you can actually do something about it. Nothing could be done now. A thousand times I'd told them: the key to racing is to come off the water regretting nothing.
Brad Alan Lewis
#89. In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.
Smith Wigglesworth
#90. 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
#91. I love you, a thousand times over. And I will never apologize for it.
Renee Ahdieh
#92. The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.
William Wordsworth
#93. One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it.
Andre Soltner
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.
Alphonsus Liguori
#97. Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
#98. My drug of choice is beer. It's not only socially accepted, you can't even watch a football game without having it shoved in your face a thousand times.
Kirk Windstein
#99. Disciplining a righteous person once yields better results than disciplining an evil person a thousand times.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#100. One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.
Jeff Goodell
