Thousand Quotes
3174 Thousand quotes by 1978 unique authors
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If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past…
— Fred Bodsworth
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A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were…
— Carl Sagan
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Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical,…
— Francis Crick
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The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and…
— John Conyers
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In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed
— Barack Obama
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Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
— Seneca the Younger
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As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them…
— Mark Twain
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America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a…
— James Madison
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... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is…
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you,…
— Honore de Balzac
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The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that…
— Saul Williams
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Love is not a compromise. It's something like the rising of the sun,although you've seen it a thousand times, you can't explain it.
— Unknown Author
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There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand…
— Antonin Artaud
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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of…
— Lord Byron
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His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union…
— John Milton
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless…
— Victor Hugo
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Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had…
— Archibald MacLeish
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Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand…
— Herbert Hoover
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I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into…
— Beryl Markham
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I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast,…
— Dale Carnegie
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In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution,…
— Roy H. Williams
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I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a…
— Ray Bradbury
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