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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
A thousand moral paintings I can show
That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's
More pregnantly than words.
What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?
I know that drummers tend to be the butt of a thousand jokes, usually from the uninformed and untalented, but I always felt I had an important role.
We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.
Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.
If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.
If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
I would for sure do a thousand dollar meet and greet because literally every single person knows where I live.
Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.
Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth
The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.
I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness
'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.
Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.
You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
We don't believe that you should ever replace physical education. Even in a thousand years, a computer will never be able to do so.
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
A smile can express more than a thousand feelings, but to me The Unknown, its the deadliest weapon i was created with and have control over
I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.
You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.
I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.
To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.
The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
I waited two thousand years for you, Grace Alexander,” he whispered in her ear. “And you were worth every second of it.
It was either me or Confucius that said the journey of a thousand miles begins with a vicious ass raping at airport security.
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.
When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.
If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.
Over ten thousand people have signed a petition to recall Governor Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry, that is next year's joke.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession.
As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.
In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.
Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.
There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.
When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!
The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off.
Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.
I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.
If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.
And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.
