Ten Thousand Quotes
290 quotes by 225 authors
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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
— Joan Baez
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
— Joseph Addison
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle.…
— Sitting Bull
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control…
— Lord Byron
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and…
— James Cameron
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
— Winston Churchill
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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and…
— Hsu Yun
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The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild…
— Charles Galton Darwin
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What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and…
— Kenneth Rexroth
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The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's…
— Helen Hunt
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Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life…
— Thomas Adams
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Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and in part, and…
— Robert Blatchford
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
— Francois Rabelais
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A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
— Jackson Pollock
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Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes…
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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