My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure. — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million… — Charles Galton Darwin Copy Share Image
“There's ten thousand wyes a hen can get into a gairden, but only the wan wye she can get oot, and it's… — Neil Munro Copy Share Image
I feel like I’m finally whole. I’m five thousand years old,” he rasped. “But the day you found me in the woods,… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“The greatest scholar alive hasn't more than four thousand different words at his command, and he never has occasion to use half… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick;… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in… — Richard H. Davis Copy Share Image
We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more,… — William Johnson Sollas Copy Share Image
My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's sweetly played… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There may be different channels of approach, yes. For not all peoples walked in the field when the wheat was ripe. Neither… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind. — Travis Tritt Copy Share Image
Weight Watchers says nothing tastes better than thin feels. I can think of a thousand things that taste better than thin feels. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we'd have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years… — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
the mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction. — St Edmund Copy Share Image
But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify;… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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