Thousand famous quotes

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.
-- A. E. Housman

#Excellence #Done #Thousand

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
-- Al Davis

#Lying #Thousand

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.
-- Alec Guinness

#Needs #Thousand #Explanation

Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Twenties #Thousand

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
-- Alexander Pope

#Years #Thousand #Thousand Years

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
-- Alexander Pushkin

#Dream #Thousand

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
-- Alexander Pushkin

#Illusion #Thousand

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Regret #Moments #Thousand

One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it.
-- Andre Soltner

#Pieces #Meat #Thousand

A smile can heal a thousand wounds.
-- Art Smith

#Smile #Heal #Thousand

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Use #Thousand

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn
-- Arthur Rimbaud

#Dream #Thousand

You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Conversation #Thousand

One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.
-- Barbara Demick

#Tragedy #Thousand

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
-- Bela Lugosi

#Technique #Stage #Thousand

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
-- Ben Shneiderman

#Technology #Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words #Thousand

One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#One Day #Tomorrow #Thousand

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Home #Wilderness #Thousand

I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
-- Cam Gigandet

#Years #Thousand #Thousand Years

If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.
-- Carmen Agra Deedy

#Sparks #Thousand #Mice

All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.
-- Chuck Jones

#Drawing #Hundred #Thousand

An image is better than one thousand words
-- Confucius

#Photography #Thousand

The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.
-- Constantin Stanislavski

#Interesting #Actors #Thousand

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.
-- Conway Twitty

#Song #Records #Thousand

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb
-- Cornelia Funke

#House #Enemy #Thousand

To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.
-- Dalai Lama

#Awareness #Thousand #Oneself

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
-- Daniel Defoe

#Fear #Danger #Thousand

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
-- David R. Brower

#Vote #Realizing #Thousand

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.
-- David Steindl-Rast

#Artist #Painful #Thousand

Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.
-- Deb Caletti

#Reminders #Terrible #Thousand

But my apology was a thousand apologies.
-- Deb Caletti

#Apology #Thousand

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.
-- Dorothy Dunnett

#Tree #World #Thousand

You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait.
-- Doug Rader

#Years #Waiting #Thousand

A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin
-- Dutch Schultz

#Boys #Mobster #Thousand

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
-- Edward Steichen

#Photography #Photograph #Thousand

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.
-- Ellen G. White

#Father #Way #Thousand

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
-- Ernest Mandel

#Hundred #Thousand #Workers

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.
-- Ernst Lubitsch

#Cameras #Way #Thousand

For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.
-- Fanny Brice

#Dollars #Pipe #Thousand

Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.
-- Frances Mayes

#Chance #Thousand #Offers

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
-- Francois Truffaut

#Taste #Results #Thousand

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.
-- Frederick Buechner

#Miracle #Plus #Thousand

Being a bad writer a thousand times first.
-- Gail Simone

#Firsts #Thousand

Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Thousand #Verses

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Conquer #Thousand

He’d pleasured Hera and a few thousand others, and when Hera learned about those thousand others…heads had rolled.
-- Gena Showalter

#Thousand #Hera

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies..
-- George R. R. Martin

#Fantasy #Reader #Thousand

A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Thousand #Stills #Deserve

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
-- George Santayana

#Shells #Thousand

Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.
-- George Whitefield

#Missionary #Christ #Thousand

I have made love to ten thousand women.
-- Georges Simenon

#Sex #Made #Thousand

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.
-- Gerald May

#Mistake #Extravagance #Thousand

My Wings are a thousand books.
-- Gill Robb Wilson

#Book #Wings #Thousand

Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.
-- Guy Finley

#Fearless #Thousand #Plans

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
-- Hakuin Ekaku

#Meditation #Midst #Thousand

A pitcher is worth a thousand worts.
-- Hannah Hart

#Pitcher #Thousand

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.
-- Harriet Tubman

#Able #Slave #Thousand

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

#Miles #Where You Are #Thousand

I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening.
-- Henri

#Evening #Prey #Thousand

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
-- Henry Fielding

#Happiness #Thousand #Persons

You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.
-- Huey Newton

#Worry #Thousand

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
-- Jackson Pollock

#Friendship #Real #Thousand

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.
-- James F. Cooper

#Society #Thousand

Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.
-- Jason Reitman

#Made #Thousand #Feels

We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

#Taken #Thinking #Thousand

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.
-- Jenny Han

#Victory #Underdog #Thousand

Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.
-- Joan Lunden

#Attitude #Positive Attitude #Thousand

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.
-- Jodi Picoult

#Lying #Want #Thousand

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Beautiful #Different #Thousand

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.
-- John Flavel

#Men #Soul #Thousand

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
-- John Flavel

#Sin #Easier #Thousand

The night has a thousand eyes.
-- John Lyly

#Eye #Night #Thousand

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
-- John Millington Synge

#Horse #Son #Thousand

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

#Law #Pounds #Thousand

A good quote is worth a thousand words.
-- Jonathan King

#Thousand

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth
-- Joseph Goebbels

#Lying #Thousand #Remains

I'll see you again in a thousand years.
-- Juice Newton

#Years #You Again #Thousand

One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent
-- Julie Garwood

#Discontent #Thousand

A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.
-- Karlfried Graf Durckheim

#Secret #Sitting #Thousand

It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?
-- Katherine Rundell

#Eight #Bird #Thousand

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.
-- Kathleen Raine

#Perfect #Great Love #Thousand

I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.
-- Kevin Gates

#Live By #Thousand

For you, a thousand times over
-- Khaled Hosseini

#Love #Thousand

Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Currency #Thousand #Inflation

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic
-- Kurt Tucholsky

#Men #Hundred #Thousand

We lost one child and we gained ten thousand children.
-- Kyle Petty

#Children #Lost #Thousand

I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.
-- Lake Bell

#Kind #Bustle #Thousand

My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.
-- Leslie Feinberg

#Thread #Thousand

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.
-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Broken #Pieces #Thousand

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.
-- Lin Biao

#Mao #Chairman Mao #Thousand

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
-- Linus Torvalds

#Giving #Thousand #Consumers

I write a thousand words a day.
-- Lisa See

#Writing #Thousand

She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.
-- Lisi Harrison

#Running #Regret #Thousand

Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.
-- Little Richard

#Years #Given #Thousand

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
-- Louis Nizer

#Clever #Insult #Thousand

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.
-- Louis Nizer

#Life #Father #Thousand

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.
-- Marcus Buckingham

#Inspiring #People #Thousand

You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.
-- Margaret Sullavan

#Years #Hollywood #Thousand

One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.
-- Mark Batterson

#Ideas #Thousand

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows
-- Mati Klarwein

#Might #Window #Thousand