quotes about Thousand
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Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.
-- A. E. Housman -
One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
-- Al Davis -
Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.
-- Alec GuinnessSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.
-- Alexander Gordon SmithSource : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.59, Faber & Faber
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
-- Alexander Pope -
It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
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One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it.
-- Andre Soltner -
Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
A thousand Dreams within me softly burn
-- Arthur RimbaudSource : Arthur Rimbaud (1994). “Poems”, Everyman's Library
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You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.
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One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.
-- Barbara DemickSource : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.106, Granta
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I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
-- Bela Lugosi -
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
-- Ben Shneiderman -
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One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
-- Cam Gigandet -
If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.
-- Carmen Agra Deedy -
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All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.
-- Chuck JonesSource : Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.61, Macmillan
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The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.
-- Constantin Stanislavski -
I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.
-- Conway Twitty -
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A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb
-- Cornelia Funke -
To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.
-- Dalai Lama -
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
-- Daniel DefoeSource : Daniel Defoe (1995). “Robinson Crusoe”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions
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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
-- David R. Brower -
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The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.
-- David Steindl-Rast -
Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.
-- Deb Caletti -
Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.
-- Dorothy DunnettSource : Dorothy Dunnett (1972). “The Ringed Castle”, Vintage
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You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait.
-- Doug Rader -
A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin
-- Dutch SchultzSource : William S. Burroughs, Dutch Schultz (1970). “The last words of Dutch Schultz”, Not Avail
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A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
-- Edward Steichen -
Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.
-- Ellen G. WhiteSource : Ellen G. White (2013). “Our Father Cares”, Review and Herald Pub Assoc
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Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
-- Ernest MandelSource : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
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There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.
-- Ernst LubitschSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.
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Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.
-- Frances MayesSource : "Under the Tuscan Sun". www.imdb.com. September 20, 2003.
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Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
-- Francois TruffautSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.
-- Frederick Buechner -
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.
-- Gautama Buddha -
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One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
-- Gautama Buddha -
He’d pleasured Hera and a few thousand others, and when Hera learned about those thousand others…heads had rolled.
-- Gena Showalter -
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies..
-- George R. R. Martin -
A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.
-- George R. R. Martin -
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
-- George Santayana -
Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.
-- George Whitefield -
I have made love to ten thousand women.
-- Georges SimenonSource : Quoted in L'Express, 21 Feb. 1977
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I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.
-- Gerald May -
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Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.
-- Guy Finley -
Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
-- Hakuin Ekaku -
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I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.
-- Harriet Tubman -
But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.
-- Harry Chapin -
I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening.
-- Henri -
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
-- Henry Fielding -
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You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.
-- Huey NewtonSource : Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.53, Penguin
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A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
-- Jackson Pollock -
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.
-- James F. Cooper -
Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.
-- Jason Reitman -
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We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon -
Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.
-- Jenny HanSource : Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
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Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.
-- Joan Lunden -
When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.
-- Jodi Picoult -
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.
-- John FlavelSource : John Flavel (1677). “Divine Conduct and Saint Indeed”, p.134
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Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
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What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
-- John Millington SyngeSource : John Millington Synge (2014). “Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing
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In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
-- John Ray -
A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth
-- Joseph Goebbels -
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One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent
-- Julie GarwoodSource : Julie Garwood (2011). “The Secret”, p.234, Penguin
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A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.
-- Karlfried Graf Durckheim -
It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?
-- Katherine RundellSource : Katherine Rundell (2013). “Rooftoppers”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
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Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.
-- Kathleen RaineSource : Kathleen Raine, “Confessions”
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I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.
-- Kevin Gates -
For you, a thousand times over
-- Khaled HosseiniSource : Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.110, A&C Black
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Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.
-- Kin Hubbard -
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One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic
-- Kurt Tucholsky -
We lost one child and we gained ten thousand children.
-- Kyle Petty -
I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.
-- Lake Bell -
My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.
-- Leslie FeinbergSource : Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr
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Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.
-- Lewis H. Lapham -
One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.
-- Lin Biao -
A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
-- Linus Torvalds -
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She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.
-- Lisi HarrisonSource : Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.161, Hachette UK
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Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.
-- Little Richard -
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
-- Louis Nizer -
A father is a thousand schoolmasters.
-- Louis NizerSource : Louis Nizer (1963). “Between you and me”
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Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.
-- Marcus Buckingham -
You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.
-- Margaret SullavanSource : "Child of Fate - Margaret Sullavan". Book by Lawrence J. Quirk (p. 77), 1986.
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One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.
-- Mark Batterson -
A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows
-- Mati Klarwein -