Thousand Quotes
3174 Thousand quotes by 1978 unique authors
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We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
— George H. W. Bush
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I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is…
— George H. W. Bush
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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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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
— Lord Byron
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I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how…
— James Caan
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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional…
— Christopher Alexander
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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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There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being…
— Albert Camus
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I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out…
— Nelson Algren
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Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's…
— Thomas Carper
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A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
— Paul Cezanne
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
— Paul Cezanne
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With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've…
— Wilt Chamberlain
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A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
— Fred Allen
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
— Winston Churchill
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We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
— Winston Churchill
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All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
— Julie Andrews
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
— Hank Aaron
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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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Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened…
— Jimmy Carter
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I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
— Duke of Wellington
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Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no…
— Jacob Bronowski
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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
— Wernher von Braun
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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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There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in summer, And snow…
— Wumen Huikai
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