Top 100 Thousand Times Quotes
#1. 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
#2. My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.
Jim Goad
#3. Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.
Smith Wigglesworth
#4. 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
#5. I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.
Anandi Gopal Joshi
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. But I am telling you: I would prefer a thousand times over a bruised Church to an ill Church!
Pope Francis
#9. Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#10. Have faith in life, a thousand times faith. By driving out despair, you will move away from death.
Elie Wiesel
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The case against the Jews is long and damning; it would justify ten thousand times as many pogroms as now go on in the world.
H.L. Mencken
#14. 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
#15. A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
Fred Allen
#16. It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
Travis Tritt
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.
John Kricfalusi
#21. 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
#22. GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.
Barbara Kruger
#23. Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou!
Michael Moorcock
#24. One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
Gautama Buddha
#25. An amount of bot tox the size of the dot over this i would be enough to easily kill ten people. Bot tox is a nerve agent. It is one hundred thousand times more toxic than Sarin, the nerve gas that the Aum Shinrikyo sect released in the Tokyo subway.
Richard Preston
#26. Greater in combat Than a person who conquers A thousand times a thousand people Is the person who conquers herself.
Gil Fronsdal
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.
Pete Rose
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. To be honest with one's emotions is a thousand times better than to silent about what one doesn't feel.
Aporva Kala
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms and molecules.
William Henry Bragg
#40. Pro te, milies aeterno. He placed my hand on his heart. And that means? For you, a thousand times eternity.
Tyra Lynn
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
Thomas A. Edison
#45. In my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times.
Lionel Richie
#46. Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Richard Bach
#47. 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
#48. Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
Hakuin Ekaku
#49. And you will keep breaking my heart a thousand times. And I will keep joining the pieces back a thousand times.
Avijeet Das
#50. Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.
Pharoahe Monch
#51. Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.
Leigh Bardugo
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.
Anne Lamott
#57. The kiss stayed there with no place to go, no sensory reserve that could absorb it and file it away as a common act of intimacy, a thousand times received. He knew what Anna was asking: whether you could love someone without habits.
Nicole Krauss
#58. The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.
Gautama Buddha
#59. Babies laugh three thousand times a day. Adults twenty, if we're lucky.
Diane Keaton
#60. The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
#61. Okay, I said. As long as I've got you here, we're going to use and appreciate this present moment. Because I wish, and I've wished a thousand times since you went, that we'd known it was the present, and that we were living in it.
Ali Smith
#62. I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
Arthur Levitt
#63. If I have to do battle with you a thousand times to prove my point, I'll do it.'
The queen unwisely asked, 'But to prove what point, my dear Hamlet?'
'That I loved Ophelia! Fifty thousand brothers, with all the love they can summon, would not equal my love for here. Ophelia, Ophelia.
John Marsden
#64. I want to say that even - and Bernie said this many, many times - in several of the actual public debates, she said on her worst day, Hillary Clinton's a thousand times better than Donald Trump. And Donald Trump, in my view, is a threat to the nation.
Jonathan Tasini
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. Think a thousand times when you get a bad though, but not once when you get a good one.
Dreamer
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. A plot is a thousand times more unsettling than an argument, which may be answered.
Eudora Welty
#72. 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
#73. That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.
Francois Fenelon
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred times before!"
as if there could be anything not done a hundred thousand times between Aristophanes and Andrew Void-Webber! As if Art is the What, not the How!
David Mitchell
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. He seemed to read her thoughts easily, as if she were a treasured volume he had paged through a thousand times.
Lisa Kleypas
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.
Kin Hubbard
#86. 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
#87. He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.
Milan Kundera
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.
Jenny Han
#91. 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
#92. A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate. The
Sidney Sheldon
#93. My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
Bruce Willis
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Carl Jung
#97. 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
#99. 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,
#100. One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.
Flannery O'Connor
