Thousand Quotes
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There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
Rick Perlstein -
A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers.
Woody Harrelson
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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.
Wallace Tripp -
You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.
Miriam Hopkins -
A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.
Karlfried Graf Durckheim -
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
Evelyn Underhill -
Being a bad writer a thousand times first.
Gail Simone -
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
Demosthenes
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No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!
Morris West -
I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.
Keith Briffa -
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.
William Braithwaite -
The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone.
Wumen Huikai -
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.
Morris West -
I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.
Davis Love III
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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.
Carson McCullers -
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.
Mordecai Richler -
I need ten thousand angels to walk me out the door.
Mindy McCready -
The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec