Thousand Quotes

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, 'That's it.'

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.