Thousand Quotes

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We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives. — Elizabeth Kim
Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are. — Elizabeth Noble
Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it.… — Elizabeth Lesser
Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? — Harold Pinter
If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But… — Alfie Kohn
Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against… — Bill Hicks
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience. — Ray Bradbury
War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it… — Howard Zinn
Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together. — Starhawk
Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of… — Jesse Jackson
I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self — Soren Kierkegaard
Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people. — Marcus Buckingham
I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced… — Thomas Merton
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Perhaps today there is a greater kindness of tone, as there is greater ingenuity of expression to make up for the fact that all the… — Charles Loomis Dana
My brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost?...Have we such a reliance upon the Holy Ghost? Do we believe that, at this moment, He… — Charles Spurgeon
Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favour that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.… — Martin Luther
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more. — Jean de la Bruyere
The time to be upset is during the race, when you can actually do something about it. Nothing could be done now. A thousand times… — Brad Alan Lewis
A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake. — Kin Hubbard
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up… — Elia Kazan
The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous… — Arthur C. Clarke
One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths. — Al Davis
The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten.… — Charles Bukowski
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it… — Lewis Thomas

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