Thousand Quotes · Page 154

You can help a thousand...but you can't carry three on your back!

— Jim Rohn

Whatever truth you contribute to the world will be one lucky shot in a thousand misses. You cannot be right by holding…

— Walter Lippmann

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment…

— Edward Abbey

I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is…

— Bertrand Russell

I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.

— Alexandra Petri

The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant…

— John Medina

[The crowd] will finally succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times.

— Adolf Hitler

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

— Dalai Lama

There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer…

— Paul Virilio

Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you…

— Catherine the Great

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.

— Grenville Kleiser

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

— Zoroaster

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of…

— Ralph Adams Cram

When I look at the five thousand garments and then all this music hall work, I ask myself how I could have…

— Yves Saint Laurent

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

— Vernon Howard

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

— Heraclitus

Growing up in a small town of two thousand people, there wasn't too many ways to get in trouble. But I found…

— Archie Manning

The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really…

— Ronald Graham

Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every cyclist who jumps a red light, a thousand drivers break speed limits or gape dangerously at their smartphones while driving.

— Peter Hitchens

A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter…

— Mary Ellen W. Smoot

The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself…

— Galileo Galilei

It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment…

— Henri Poincare

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this…

— Doris Lessing

In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of…

— Seth Shostak