Top 1200 Thousand Splendid Suns Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

I've seen Hugh Jackman in a thousand Broadway shows.

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

Jacques Doillon wanted me to be in his film, 'La Fille Prodigue,' and there I was, expecting, for some reason, this great bearded man, when a splendid looking red-Indian style man appeared at my door. I said no to his film because I knew that if I said yes, I would run off with him.

A picture can say a thousand words but maybe not the correct ones.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.

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

Maintain a spirit of peace and you will save a thousand souls.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

Ten thousand years as Intercontinental Champion, Oooooh yeeeah!

the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.

We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that just in the last two years more than 20 planets have been identified outside our solar system that seem to be far enough away from their suns - - and dense enough - - that they might be able to support some form of life. So it makes it increasing less likely that we're alone. But if we were visited someday, I wouldn't be surprised.

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

I get invited to a thousand parties, but do I show up at them? No, I don't.

Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself.

A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.

A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.

Funny,’ Will said, as they picked their way through. ‘Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling.’ ‘They are English,’ Merriman said. ‘Quite right,’ said Will’s father. ‘Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We’re an odd lot….

One corpse, extra crispy! Do I hear a thousand dollars?

I'm not Cormac McCarthy, but I can get my point across in a thousand words.

Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.

I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.

An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes.

Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for; This is to be a trickster; and to filch Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth, Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend, You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me, Is what, when done with a less dainty grace, Plain folks call "Theft.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

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

To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

I'm one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin

Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves. They will control the climate and the Solar System just as they control the Earth. They will travel beyond the limits of our planetary system; they will reach other Suns, and use their fresh energy instead of the energy of their dying luminary.

A million feelings. A thousand thoughts. A hundred memories. All for one person.

We lost one child and we gained ten thousand children.

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.