It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand. — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges. — Nancy Byrd Turner Copy Share Image
Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in… — Kerry Thornley Copy Share Image
In my career, I have done more than a thousand voice-overs in commercials, cartoons, and radio shows, so I'm very familiar of… — Stefan Kapicic Copy Share Image
Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
There are some people who could hear your speak a thousand words and still not understands you. And there are others who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would… — Klaus Barbie Copy Share Image
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Next time I’ll just send the three of you e-mails. What was I thinking when I decided to have this meeting? (Acheron)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; we are stung… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What… — Hafez Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls. Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground. Roarke: And how many… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save… — John Muir Copy Share Image
No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In England, the class system is about a thousand years old, and it's not going to change any time soon. — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I always go back to when I was a kid and thinking about playing in the big leagues, so now that I've… — Buster Posey Copy Share Image
A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
