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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.
Washington Irving
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph Addison
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. Wilson
Terrible. It took me 17 years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
Richard Bach
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van Beethoven
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. Cummings
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Daniel Defoe
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Swami Vivekananda
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
Robert Herrick (poet)
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
Edward Abbey
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
Charles Dudley Warner
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women.
Groucho Marx
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
John Updike
While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
John Adams
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benét
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