Thousand Quotes - page 11

I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a woman was believed to have participated. The alleged crimes in which only men were supposedly involved, i have been accused of planning. They have plastered pictures alleged to be me in post offices, airports, hotels, police cars, subways, banks, television, and newspapers. They have offered over fifty thousand dollars in rewards for my capture and they have issued orders to shoot on sight and shoot to kill. (Assata Shakur)
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. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters
Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject. ... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause. View quote
Washington Allston
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. View quote
Agnes Repplier
If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him? View quote
James Hudson Taylor
If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. ... For more than 30 centuries, the tree of vision, with all its thousand branches and their millions of twigs, has sprung from this torrid land, the burning womb of the Gods. It renews itself tirelessly showing no signs of decay. View quote
Romain Rolland
Remembering... that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces. View quote
Vitruvius
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. 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. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards. (David Livingstone)
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe. View quote
Michio Kaku
Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past. View quote
Maurice Maeterlinck
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. View quote
Herman Melville
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. View quote
Herman Melville
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Taste is a result of a thousand distastes. View quote
Francois Truffaut
So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack? View quote
Garth Nix
Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long. View quote
Isaac Watts
A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. View quote
Isaac Watts
Life - life - let there be life! Better a thousand times the roaring hours When wave and wind, Like the Arch-Murderer in flight From the Avenger at his heel, Storm through the desolate fastnesses And wild waste places of the world! (William Ernest Henley)
Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't. View quote
Peter Greenaway
To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can. View quote
Peter Greenaway
What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity. View quote
Gerald Stanley Lee
He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. View quote
Lord Byron