Thousand Quotes
3174 quotes by 2083 authors
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
— Richard Bach
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to…
— Teresa of Avila
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
— Richard Bach
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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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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he…
— Henry Adams
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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
— John Barrymore
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four…
— John Adams
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
— Joseph Addison
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
— Felix Adler
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary…
— Niels Bohr
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would…
— Bono
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -…
— Ray Bradbury
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