Thousand Quotes - page 9

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one. (Irwin Shaw)
From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. View quote
Thomas Gray
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. View quote
William Cowper
How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?" "That depends." "On what?" "On how I want to feel. View quote
Greg Egan
In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world. View quote
Jimmy Hoffa
An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes. View quote
Rodolfo Graziani
I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land. View quote
Enoch Powell
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. View quote
Augustine Birrell
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. View quote
Will Durant
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. (Henry Fielding)
It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed. View quote
James A. Garfield
There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union. View quote
Sadao Araki
I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go over those numbers again, they're a little baffling at first: Iraq: 150,000, USA: 79. Does that mean we could have won with only 80 guys there? Just one guy in a ticker-tape parade, "I did it! Hey!" View quote
Bill Hicks
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door. View quote
James A. Michener
If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow. View quote
Jane Austen
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county. View quote
Jane Austen
Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave. (Henrik Ibsen)
He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries. View quote
Augusto Pinochet
The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay... View quote
Jacob Bronowski
Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls." View quote
T. S. Eliot