Thousand Quotes
3174 Thousand quotes by 1978 unique authors
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BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand
— Alex Blackwell
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The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild…
— Charles Galton Darwin
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One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.
— Tilopa
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I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It…
— Roderick Haig-Brown
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It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It…
— Louis Armstrong
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It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow…
— Al McGuire
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It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good to us as…
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.
— Unknown Author
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May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange…
— Winston Churchill
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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm.…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than…
— Alexander Whyte
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How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members…
— Timothy Leary
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The Man of a Thousand Voices
— Mel Blanc
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The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind…
— Francis William Bourdillon
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Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
— Louis Nizer
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Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.
— Frank J. Prial
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When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly…
— Emil Zatopek
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Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.
— Thomas Browne
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
— Thomas A. Edison
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be…
— Bobby Jones
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