Thousand Quotes - page 4

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If the stars should appear just one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen librarya company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. View quote
Hannes Alfvén
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford. View quote
Pablo Picasso
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. View quote
Lord Byron
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. View quote
Charles Dickens
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed. View quote
Federico Fellini
Where, where was Roderick then One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. (Walter Scott)
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. View quote
Plato
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. View quote
Norman Spinrad
My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. View quote
Richard Adams
To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour. View quote
Anthony Doerr
Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one. View quote
Frances Mayes
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck -- and, of course, courage. (Bill Cosby)
[I]n all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city. View quote
Daniel Dennett
One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent. View quote
Julie Garwood
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. View quote
Lisa See