Thousand Quotes - page 10

I am obliged to confess I should 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. (William F. Buckley)
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. Even so, God cannot save them from fools. View quote
John Muir
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever. View quote
John Muir
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies. View quote
Phil Ochs
Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets. View quote
William Faulkner
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. View quote
Ali
It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? View quote
Harold Pinter
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others. View quote
Plutarch
Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me." View quote
Plutarch
When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings. (Plutarch)
Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway. View quote
Douglas Adams
It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are. View quote
Miley Cyrus
Unjust Discourse: To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is a talent worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae. (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, p. 361) View quote
Aristophanes
Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough. View quote
Johnny Miller
I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs. View quote
Ryan Adams
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism. View quote
H. L. Mencken
... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land. View quote
Denis Diderot
Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood- To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. View quote
William Wordsworth
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. View quote
William Wordsworth
How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, "Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact." View quote
Confucius
I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce. View quote
Terry Pratchett