Thousand Quotes
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
Tariq Ali -
A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!
Farid al-Din Attar -
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
Abraham Maslow -
Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.
Jerry Coleman -
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
Harriet Van Horne
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
Ville Valo HIM -
I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.
Rebecca De Mornay -
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
Pankaj Mishra -
There are a thousand ways to play any role.
Val Kilmer -
A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.
William Shakespeare
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron -
A word is worth a thousand images.
Andreas Gursky -
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.
Dalai Lama -
In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.
Parker Young -
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.
Nostradamus
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
Pat Meehan -
If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.
Paul Strand -
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
Victor Hugo -
There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.
Jason Mraz