The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine. — Horace Copy Share Image
A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
“It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break eggs at the smaller… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody can make a thousand dollar garment because you find the finest fabric and the finest mills, and you churn that out. — Nick Wooster Copy Share Image
It was either me or Confucius that said the journey of a thousand miles begins with a vicious ass raping at airport… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I was in Hiroshima with my assistant, and I said to him, 'You know, I've done close to a thousand shows with… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand… — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to… — William Bradford Copy Share Image
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of… — 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
