A Quotes
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“A thousand ways every day, the white man is telling you "You can't live here, you can't enter here, you can't eat here, drink here, walk here, work here, you can't ride here, you can't play here, you can't study here." Haven't we seen enough to see that he has no plan to *unite* with you?”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“A thousand ways to please your wife boil down to two words: “Yes, dear.”
“A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.”
“A thousand words blossomed to her lips and died there, because no amount of speaking could communicate the depths of how he’d affected her. Of how he’d changed her.”
Source: Rising for Autumn
“A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.”
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”
“A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.”
Source: Pale fire
“A thousand years ago or more
They opened up the devil’s door
And a cwene of dark and death
Crawled out, and creeping stole our breath
And we’ve been hiding ever-more.”
Source: Of Secrets, Spiders & and the End of the World
“A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.”
“A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.”
“A thousand years from now nobody is
going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is
right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now and who knows how far into the future that will go. If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived.”
Source: The Past Never Ends
“A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.”
“A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.”
“A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.”
“A thousand years of tears can only be voluntarily avoided,”
Source: Faith
“A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.”
“A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up.”
“A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten”
“A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting”
“A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes, sea shores and deserts, this is where we humans have the privilege to live, the latest, most advanced newcomers in evolution. What an immense, incredible responsibility we have to be a right, positive element in the further evolution of that planet. That is the big question before us in the new century and millennium.”
“A three-dimensional shadow? A hologrammatic shadow? The Graz Tower: a building in the form of a shadow. This is, in itself, a misconception: what makes a shadow a shadow is the two dimensions (it is the same with the image).
Even the zebra's shadow has no stripes.
Ubu incarnate: we lag irreparably behind stupidity.
Where do you rate your pain on a sliding scale from 0 to 10?
0= no pain, 10 = unbearable.
It's a bit like plucking daisy petals: he loves me, he loves me not ... They are the petals of pain.”
Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“A three-way?” Garrett asked. “You’re kidding, right?”
“Ménage à trois,” Jack said. “Don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it.”
Britt turned to face them, her hand still on the doorknob. This conversation was starting to get interesting. The two men faced off like snorting bulls, ignoring her.
“We do her one at a time,” Garrett said, “and I get her first. When the hell did you do a three-way?” He raised two fingers. “Follow-up question—two girls or two guys?”
Jack raised one finger. “College. Duh.” Another finger. “Two girls. It was awesome.”
“Well, I’m not doing a two-guy three-way,” Garrett said. “No way.”
Britt spoke up. “Afraid it’ll turn you on?”
“The hell kinda question is that?” Garrett said. “I’m a hundred percent straight.”
“Because you didn’t seem like a guy who’s insecure about his sexuality,” she said. “You know, when we met at the club.”
“Do not try to play me with that ‘insecure’ crap,” Garrett said.”
“A three year journey
has caused us suffering and pain
but we have grown stronger,
bound together by patience, determination,
trials, pain, perseverance, suffering, and love.
When I say, “I love you”
this part is bound up into that statement.
This is has been trial by fire,
purification by fire, our love is gold.”
Source: Legacy
“A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.”
“A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.”
“A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.”
“A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.”
“A threesome with a mother and her two twins.”
“A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.”
Source: John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people
“A thrilled customer is the most potent marketing asset your organization can leverage.”
“A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.”
“A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculation.”
“A thrilling bite is all it takes to lose your heart to another.”
“A thriving future demands that we prioritize sustainability and embrace eco-friendly practices in every aspect of our lives.”
“A Thriving Society Is Partly Dependent on Each Individual and Corporate Citizen Paying Their Fair Share in Taxes.”
“A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.”
Source: The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David
“A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“A throne won in blood will soon be drenched in it.”
Source: The Last King of the Mountain
“A throng of bearded men in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and other bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.”
“A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.”
Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
“A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.”
Source: Magic City: Trials of a Native Son
“A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.”
“A thug only understands you when you speak his language”
“A thump thump thump noise that was so unfamiliar, and yet I couldn't quite place it. But I knew it. It was - "Mmm-hmmm," Monica murmured, just as Wes came view into the path. He was running, his pace quick and steady. He was in shorts, his shirt off, staring ahead as he passed. His back was tan and gleaming with sweat.”
“A thunder blazed from the hells now, and it touched the Earth’s ground.Grim clouds floated across the vault of Earth. A heavy rain pelted against the revolving sphere, which made destructions a lot.Nature danced with a haunting pain in the midst of human deterioration.”
Source: The Bell Ringing Woman: A Blue Bell of Inspiration
“A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around him thrown? With what a gloom the ush’ring scene appears! The leaves all shiv’ring with instinctive fears, The waters curling with a fellow dread, A veiling fervour round creation spread, And, last, the heavy rain’s reluctant shower, With big drops patt’ring on the tree and bower, While wizard shapes the bowing sky deform,— All mark the coming of the thunder-storm!”
“A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.”
“A ti te gusta la quietud. Tienes vocación de adorno. Llegas, te instalas, y tu serenidad mejora el ambiente. No se trata de algo forzado: no estás posando.”
Source: Conferencia sobre la lluvia