Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand;… — Brooks Adams Copy Share Image
You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and… — Henry Irving Copy Share Image
Trump would rather submerge himself in the lake of fire for a thousand years than talk about Russia again. It's the subject… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you… — Elizabeth Noble Copy Share Image
The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I nearly forgot, Ragnak had a further message for you. He said if we lose this battle and loses his slaves as… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
“If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I know of a few multimillionaires who started trading with inherited wealth. In each case, they lost it all because they didn't… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
If they can’t survive alone for four days once a year, they deserve to die. (Acheron) That’s harsh, for you. (Dante) Harsh?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one’s life, but of the quality of… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert? — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
On Bergessio, in 2013, I made a reckless tackle and I was so sorry. I told him I was sorry a thousand… — Giorgio Chiellini Copy Share Image
King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
I hope that I live for a thousand years, and have a thousand daughters so that there will always be a woman… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant,… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities... — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
