Thousand Quotes · Page 16

No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

WikiLeaks has been publishing for ten years, and in those ten years, we have published ten million documents, several thousand individual publications,…

— Julian Assange

We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.

— Pete Hautman

Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur…

— T. Colin Campbell

Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.

— Robert Menzies

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

— Edmund Spenser

I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to…

— Jack Black

There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is…

— Czeslaw Milosz

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

— Leonard Cohen

Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the…

— John Keltonic

I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about…

— Fisher Ames

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the…

— Edward Abbey

I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I…

— Dave Barry

I was so nervous when I moved out at 18. I had a couple thousand dollars to my name. I remember it…

— Katie Cassidy

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had…

— Edmund White

India's sprawling subcontinent can never become a plus-size Singapore. But perhaps we can weave together an urban web that is the equivalent…

— Anand Mahindra

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in…

— William Shakespeare

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty…

— Virginia Woolf

And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away…

— Edgar Lee Masters

Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal…

— George Nakashima

I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

— Horace Walpole

Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played…

— John Grier Hibben

Lee May's about the same age as me; he's got about the same stats. So how come he's making about one-eighty, two…

— Reggie Jackson