Thousand Quotes
3174 Thousand quotes by 1978 unique authors
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The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the…
— William James
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Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you…
— Sivananda
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But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating…
— John Cornyn
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If you owe your banker a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe your banker a million pounds, he is at your…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we…
— Mary Landrieu
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Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the…
— John Bunyan
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Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand…
— Paul Washer
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Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history…
— John Flavel
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If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a thousand women I couldn't go to hell--in fact, I couldn't go to hell if I…
— Bill Foster
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Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The…
— Federico Fellini
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A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth
— Joseph Goebbels
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The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.
— Douglas Preston
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Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is…
— Wilhelm II
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It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it;…
— Aleister Crowley
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When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well,…
— William Carey
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Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God... It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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I write a thousand words a day.
— Lisa See
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There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he,…
— Laurence Sterne
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Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which…
— Iannis Xenakis
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You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.
— Gene Simmons
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I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in…
— John Trevor Godfrey
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One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
— Phil Ochs
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