Thousand Quotes
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The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.
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The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone.
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Out of what... a thousand?
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What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!
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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.
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I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.
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You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.
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Being a bad writer a thousand times first.
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Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers, And dreams of countless Junes, Return when the lake-wind murmurs Through golden August noons.
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The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.
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I need ten thousand angels to walk me out the door.
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A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.
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There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
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The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
