Thousand Quotes
3174 Thousand quotes by 1978 unique authors
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We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside,…
— Terry Teachout
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This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.
— Mark Nepo
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A hug is worth a thousand words.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that…
— David Hume
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O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!
— Charles Wesley
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When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.
— Davis Love III
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The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot…
— William Shakespeare
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When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand…
— Paul Zane Pilzer
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I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was born in a…
— Ricky Gervais
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I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
— Philip Sidney
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Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough…
— Hermann Weyl
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We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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It seems that England's royal family is running out of money. They are down to just $1.6 million. Well sure, that's what happens when nobody…
— Jay Leno
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Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form…
— Sun Tzu
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One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get…
— Meister Eckhart
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I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.
— Rumi
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One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
— Donald Sutherland
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The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next…
— C.S. Lewis
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.
— H. L. Mencken
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Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
— Hakuin Ekaku
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