A Quotes
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“A thousand ills require a thousand cures.”
Source: The Love Books of Ovid
“A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.”
Source: Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic
“A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;
And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.”
“A thousand lies do not have the force to produce one truth, other than the truth that they are lies.”
“A thousand lips, a thousand eyes,
a thousand hearts will read these words,
as you read them, graze them, this moment.
Thousands will utter them into the abyss, someday, perhaps for years to come; loudly, softly,
repeatedly, again and again and again.
Some will mock, some will laugh. Some
will shed a tear.
But it is written
only for your lips, your eyes, your heart,
beloved.”
“A thousand little civilities create tenderness in time.”
Source: A Room with a View
“A thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah's smile”
Source: Treasury of David
“A thousand men could not keep me warm. My soulmate is the totality of the teeming earth.”
Source: The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language
“A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“A thousand minus one is never a thousand”
“A thousand moral paintings I can show
That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's
More pregnantly than words.”
Source: Timon of Athens
“A thousand of old man are just able to dream, but a young man is able to change the world!”
“A thousand or so faces stared, waiting.
She had never spoken to so many people simultaneously.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.”
“A Thousand Pardons began at the beginning. I wanted it to be one continuous, almost breathless kind of story. In order to do that, it's really hard not to begin at the beginning. There's such a chain of consequence to everything that happens to main characters - it's very hard to break it apart and still be able to hold the plot in your head.”
“A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.”
Source: The Daughter of Time
“A thousand people may have climbed to a very difficult summit, but none of them can achieve the honor of the first person to reach it!”
“A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.”
“A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.”
“A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".”
“A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.”
“A thousand pounds for clothes--when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter!”
“A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence never lies. Silence is God's final advantage. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it.”
Source: The Fireman
“A thousand questions hung with the hopeful weight of a million bright bright stars, filling her with restless yearning. ~ “Vindication Across Time”
“A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known.”
Source: The Passage
“A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.”
“A thousand rivers they had ridden over together, a thousand streams they had slept beside.”
Source: Lord of Shadows
“A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.”
“A thousand sorrows prepares a man to preach.”
“A thousand suns blossom through the dark and fresh flowers grow in the valley of grief.”
“A thousand suns rise from my chest.”
Source: Where She Went
“A thousand thanks to God for His constant live.”
“A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.”
“A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.”
Source: The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“a thousand things that can become a metaphor for our existence in our lives and a thousand to live, die and be reborn. Everyone is intertwined in the threads of purpose and existence. Each of us is a character in a cosmic play. Some acts are short, others long.”
Source: A Metaphor of Life – Rose Red Roses
“A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.”
Source: A Writer's Diary
“A thousand thoughts entered my head, threatening to shatter the heat, but when he stopped, piercing me with those eyes when he looked up at me, I was...
I was found.”
Source: Rage and Ruin
“A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.”
Source: To Die For: A Novel
“A thousand time knocked down by life; A thousand times pick-up by the Lord.”
“A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.”
“A thousand times over with you,
I yearned to linger in a perfect moment
and stop the passing of time.
A thousand times over with you,
I caught your tender smile and tucked it
carefully away in my heart for safekeeping.
A thousand times over with you,
I took in your sunny gaze and
hoarded its light for the wintry season.
A thousand times over with you,
I heard your laughter and sat silent
as it vibrated like music in my soul.
A thousand times over with you,
I saw your eyes twinkle like stars,
and I made a wish for forever.
A thousand times over with you,
I noted wisdom in your years,
and I filed away your thoughtful words.
A thousand times over with you,
I felt the warmth of your hand in mine
and squeezed tight, reluctant to let go.
A thousand times over with you,
I pondered how quickly mortality ushers us
from sunrise to sunset, and I dreaded the night.
A thousand times over with you,
I embraced the promise of immortality,
dreaming of a day when perfect moments
linger pleasantly on and on and on
a thousand times over with you.”
Source: A Heart Made of Tissue Paper
“A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.”
“A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the wilderness of their inner world, since obdurate mental impediments have been barricading the road to understanding and propinquity. (“A thousand times”)”
“A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.”
Source: Double Identity
“A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train.”
Source: Music of the Swamp
“A thousand tiny imperfections can make a perfect life.”
Source: Ice Queen
“A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in her hair; Bent low, nay almost fallen to the ground, The citron, heavy with its yellow load; And, last, the graceful lemon with its fruit Of pleasant smell and shaped like virgins' breasts.”
“A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)
“A thousand versions of herself whispered, screamed, sang to be free.”
Source: The Girl with the Fierce Eyes