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An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there,… — Dawn Powell
A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. — Hannes Alfven
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five… — George Mikes
The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and… — Unknown Author
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention… — Ben Horowitz
My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold. — Unknown Author
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. — Unknown Author
You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times… — Unknown Author
Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one. — Unknown Author
Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold. — Ze'ev Jabotinsky
First I took a crap on the hooker's chest, then I told her I'd pay her a thousand dollars to eat it. She was addicted… — Zach Braff
There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to. — Antonya Nelson
A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies — Kevin J. Anderson
We look up. For weeks, for months, that is all we have done. Look up. And there it is-the top of Everest. Only it is… — Tenzing Norgay
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself, -- it is the purest, most ethereal language… — Carl Maria von Weber
So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different… — Caroline Knapp
The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I… — Robert Scheer
But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor… — Anthony Trollope
Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ. — George Whitefield
I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round… — Teresa of Avila
Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of… — Unknown Author
A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go. — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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