Best Thousand Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 19

“Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.”

“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.”

Years Has Beens Two Thousand Luxury Prose Verses Thousand Years

Author:Voltaire

“A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.”

Soul Effects Thousand Ten Acres

Book:Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

Source: Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

“To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.”

Ifs Should Years Stills Moments Voice Wise Changed Thousand Our Time Thousand Years Day To Day Carpe Diem Being Wise Morrow Carpe Small Voice

Book:The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir of the Author...

Source: The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir of the Author...

“By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.”

People World Years Littles Enough Bigs House Building Thousand Finished Architecture Forty Pentagon

Author:David Brinkley

“We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.”

Planets Civilization Thousand Six Smart Intelligence Billions Deviants

Book:The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

Source: The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

“If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?”

Ifs Years Firsts Would Be Thousand Awakening Thousand Years Proven Hypothesis Riemann

Author:David Hilbert

“If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn about craft so that the next time you pick up a contemporary short story, you're reading it not as an abstraction floating in formaldehyde, existing simply for the theorist's dull scalpel to saw on, but as a concrete thing constructed out of words and shaped by syntax, brought to life by a writer who made several thousand choices, some large, some small, before letting that imperfect beauty, the story, walk on its own two feet.”

“Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!”

Years Sea Battle Thousand England Native Flags Thousand Years Breeze Mariners

Book:The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand

Source: The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand

“Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.”

Thinking Hard Evil Blood Worst Produce Masters Thousand Ten Weakness Vices Tyranny Cruelty Chains Luxury Sensual Tyrants Apathy Harsh Wickedness Energetic Despotism Sloth Negligence

Author:Lord Byron

“I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.”

Men Trying Years Believe Stills Two Lasts I Believe History Havens Changed Thousand Consequence Triumph Spite Thousand Years

Book:Civilization

Source: Civilization

“Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.”

Giving Has Beens Two Book Hands Causes Sky Subjects Thousand Bird Hundred Treated Feathers Eighty Illustration Astonishment

Book:An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain

Source: An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain

“One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.”

Source: William Morris on Art and Socialism

“There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.”

Way Heaven Wealth Thousand One Way

Book:The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

Source: The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

“Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.”

Life Hands Life Is Values Left Rooms Thousand Strongest Begging Spills Cheap Things

Book:The Sea-Wolf (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Sea-Wolf (Diversion Classics)

“Assurance grows by repeated conflict, by our repeated experimental proof of the Lord's power and goodness to save; when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope, and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances: and this trust, when habitual and strong, bears the name of assurance; for even assurance has degrees.”

Source: The Voice of the Heart

“Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.”

Men World May Two Rich Alive Masters Thousand Hundred One Man Rich Man Days To Come

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)

“There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.”

Men Persons Whole Government Choices Fighting Thousand League Charm Unnatural

Book:The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).”

Way Trying Persons Individual Thousand Sake Combination Novelty Platitudes

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .”

Years Littles Dies Dark Thousand Kissing Red Stones Labels Immortality Butterfly Thousand Years Thrones Apes Pilgrim

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.”

Thousand Translations Literal Prettiest Paraphrase

Book:Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977

Source: Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977

“When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.”

Knows Years Mean Two Games Sports Gone Five Thousand Ten Seven Zero Do You Know Bats Really Mean

Author:Reggie Jackson

“If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.”

Ifs Years Sports Thousand Paid Dollars Thirty

Author:Ted Williams

“I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.”

Firsts Lasts Death Gone Dying Youth Hair Thousand Died Graves Teeth Dust Odd

Author:Lord Byron

“I try to build the things so that they're fairly indestructible. I've learned from my mistakes and some of those units, even if human life disappears from the planet, will still be recognizable a thousand years from now abandoned somewhere in the woods.”

Ifs Trying Years Humans Stills Mistake Planets Thousand Woods Disappear Human Life I've Learned Abandoned Thousand Years Units My Mistakes Indestructible

Author:John Lindsay

“Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.”

People Years Has Beens Ideas Used Thousand Evolve Willingness Thousand Years Constraints Lack Of Leadership

Author:Ziggy Marley

“I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films.”

I Can Running Film Form Sound My Own Cities Watches Thousand Edits Screening Premieres Sound And Music

Author:William Friedkin

“I have control over every single frame on Blu-ray. If I want a scene bluer, I get that scene bluer. Originally, there was some fluctuation with the prints. If you made a thousand, or a few thousand prints, there is no control over any of that. But now I can make a master using the digital process.”

Ifs Want Made I Can Process Masters Scene Thousand Digital Print Rays Fluctuation

Author:William Friedkin

“I would walk a thousand miles To feel your hugs and see your smiles But then one day we had to part The hardest day, it broke my heart But I still see you every day Because in my heart and mind you stay.”

Feels Mind Heart Stills Walks My Heart One Day Thousand Miles Hardest Broke Sympathy Hug Heart And Mind Your Smile Thousand Miles Broke My Heart

Author:Gail Collins

“People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.”

People Two Thousand Dollars Marketing Clouds Data Infrastructure Blogs Amazon

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“I can have a thousand people say the nicest things, but I'll always notice the one person who doesn't get me.”

People Persons I Can Thousand

Author:Tyler Oakley

“The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through.”

Way Writing Littles Book Ends Next Bits Morning Thousand Little Bit Editing Edits

Author:Walter Mosley

“If I sing "you broke my heart, you left me flat," everyone knows exactly what that means - they know the story. But if I sing a line that's plaintive or wailing, people can experience their own set of emotions and their own story. Each of us might give that phrase a different meaning. It's open to interpretation, and one song becomes a thousand songs. I love that.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Heart Mean Different Stories Might Song Left Lines Emotion My Heart Thousand Broke Phrases Flats Interpretation Wailing Broke My Heart Different Meanings You Left Me

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.”

People Years Ideas Reason Dream Mankind Strange Planets Couple Thousand Destruction Disappear Seats Destroying Fades Thousand Years Fade Away

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.”

Doe Literature Boys Pieces Meditation Thousand Mass Priests Vocation Altars

Book:The Priest Is Not His Own

Source: The Priest Is Not His Own

“Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.”

Should Firsts Mean Asks Prayer Answers Thousand Thirds Overcoming Temptation Ask Me Repeats

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.”

People Heaven Behinds Hell Thousand Priests

Author:John Vianney

“The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.”

Form Rocks Thousand Ten Rivers Landscape Cliffs Terrace Plateaus

Book:Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Source: Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

“Walking around with less than ten thousand dollars is completely unacceptable. It's a necessity of life. It gives you freedom. The most important thing in life is a sense of possibility, and you simply can't have it with less than ten thousand dollars in your pocket.”

Giving Important Life Is Possibility Walking Thousand Ten Important Things Dollars Pockets Things In Life Most Important Things In Life

Author:Rocco Landesman

“To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.”