Thousand Quotes - page 3

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

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.

Thomas Malthus

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Ernest Bramah

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

Richard Burton

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Margaret Mead

I began to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dashand it may be well that we become so hardened.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand.'

Ben Jonson

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

John Millington Synge

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun. (Babe Ruth)

What Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew No grown, his growth lasts taught, he ne'er forgets May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Robert Browning

You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

Richard Bach

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

William Cowper

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Theodore Roosevelt

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

Jules Verne

Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Benjamin Franklin

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Alexander Smith

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

Philip Massinger

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. (Penn Jillette)

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

David Hilbert

Alas how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays A face o'er which a thousand shadows go.

William Wordsworth

Ten thousand saw I at a glance; Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

William Wordsworth

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Henry Adams

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