Thousand Quotes

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I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction. — Mae West
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it. — Henry David Thoreau
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. — Charles Caleb Colton
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does… — Thomas A. Edison
Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear. — Unknown Author
Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge! — Adolf Hitler
They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition,… — William John Wills
Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a… — Al McGuire
I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall… — Jules Verne
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has… — Carl Sagan
Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of… — William Shakespeare
My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night. — Tom Cruise
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking… — Dalai Lama
To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else. — Dalai Lama
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years… — Carolyn Wells
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we… — Lawrence Durrell
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin… — Laozi
Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes… — Norman Lear
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by… — Isaac Asimov

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