The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of… — William James Copy Share Image
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
I have read a thousand screenplays, and I have acted in a handful of them, and I have felt when it feels… — Ryan Eggold Copy Share Image
and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have so much to grapple with, I don't think too much about me. People call it the "dance of a thousand… — Andrew Niccol Copy Share Image
You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It was really just the name that inspired me: Rainsboro. It's located near Rocky Fork State Park. I have probably driven through… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
