Thousand Quotes
3174 Thousand quotes by 1978 unique authors
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When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know…
— Rajneesh
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Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out…
— Pete Seeger
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Ours is a bad, bad world, but does that mean nothing's good? Does it mean we have run out of things for which to be…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
— Pablo Picasso
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While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
— Unknown Author
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We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how…
— Zhuangzi
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Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
— Jean Paul
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You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this…
— Jack Abbott
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A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite…
— Douglas Adams
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A great novel is worth one thousand films.
— Oscar Hijuelos
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It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for…
— Julian Casablancas
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Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at…
— Sheldon Vanauken
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My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can…
— Alfred Nobel
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Women initiate most domestic violence, yet out of a thousand cases of domestic violence, maybe one is involving a man. And this has made a…
— Dov Charney
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Most people think of a feel as when you touch something or someone and what it feels like to your fingers but, a feel can…
— Buck Brannaman
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The relentless pull of love is a thousand times harder to fight than the tides. If you’re lucky, you’ll make it out before you drown.…
— Cassia Leo
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Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a…
— Unknown Author
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I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.
— Robert Cormier
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I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and…
— Nikola Tesla
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The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.
— Carl Jung
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A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.
— Karlfried Graf Durckheim
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One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.
— John Flavel
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Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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