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“Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time”

Hate Passion Sun Thousand I Hate Fiery Disclosure Supernova

“I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.”

Source: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and tales. Eureka, an essay on the material and spiritual universe

“You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.”

Ifs Knows Said Faces Thousand Twenties Forgiving Dollars Rose Nerves Your Face Propositions Forgive Me

Author:Agatha Christie

“I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.”

World Want Writing Next Space Honor Thousand Ten Findings Pages Reflection Notes Bottom Ashamed Journal

Book:Cosmopolis: A Novel

Source: Cosmopolis: A Novel

“Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)”

Ifs Knows Writing Character Class Gone Thousand Towns Population Minors Seventies Small Town Thirteen Dickens Did You Know Minor Characters

Book:The Polysyllabic Spree

Source: The Polysyllabic Spree

“Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.”

People Care Used Fall Grief Trouble Evolution Victory Lessons Cost Thousand Soldier Communism Chinese Flats Efficient Bugs Alliances Chins Adapted Hegemony Ammo

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.”

Years Mind Black Pleasure Half Thousand Depression Patterns Storm Access Curious Panic Mansions Charlotte Demented Turned Off Housekeepers Rambling Malfunction

Book:Charlotte Gray: A Novel

Source: Charlotte Gray: A Novel

“A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Children Persons Inspiring Laughing Thousand Balls Noses Seals

Book:Summer of my German soldier

Source: Summer of my German soldier

“Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.”

Years Three Grief Tomorrow Thousand Three Years

Author:Karen Kingsbury

“The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks.”

“My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.”

Men Night Laughing Thousand Ten Jokes Reputation Ladies Man

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had six years' experience, I had five thousand and ten. That was the kind of odds that you could do something with.”

Years Kind Names Bits Chance Five Thousand Ten Six Odds

Book:Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)

Source: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)

“... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'" "Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo. "The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..." "... is Locke ..." "... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..." "... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.”

Thinking Knows Persons Said Bigs Games Language Perfect Four Taught Brother Thousand Appreciate Hot Bounds Tricks Saving Fifty Iron Get Away Cheer Knives Our Love Bugs Spectators Locke Lamora

Author:Scott Lynch

“A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.”

Persons Moments Courses Walks Rooms Thousand Hundred Prepared Tiny Hello

Book:Eden Close: a novel

Source: Eden Close: a novel

“You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that’s right. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars… five thousand dollars per bullet… You know why? Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars there would be no more innocent bystanders.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Needs Should Would Be Causes Five Cost Thousand Gun Dollars Innocent Bullets Gun Control Bystanders

Author:Chris Rock

“And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of the Iranian attendant, the thickening clouds--nothing was mine. And I understood finally, after a semester of philosophy, a thousand books of poetry, after death and childbirth and the startled cries of men who called out my name as they entered me, I finally believed I was alone, felt it in my actual, visceral heart, heard it echo like a thin bell.”

Men Heart Book Matter Philosophy Names Felt Black Saws Heard Cry Mines Thousand Understood Clouds Bells Echoes After Death Childbirth Iranian Visceral Slick Semester Asphalt

Book:What we carry: poems

Source: What we carry: poems

“If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.”

Ifs Years May Answers Source Thousand Spring Asking Live Life Thousand Years Asking Why

Book:Meister Eckhart (CWS)

Source: Meister Eckhart (CWS)

“One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. ... The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful. Well, maybe you've just neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand.”

Knows Needs Years Wells Book Sometimes Facts Hands Lasts Beautiful Differences Attitude Study Environment Magic Building Thousand Ancient Wave Cease Surroundings Neglected

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.”

Remember Knowing Streets Thousand Lonely Grieving Savages

Book:Light in August

Source: Light in August

“The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.”

Night Streets Scene Thousand Died Corners Ran Whiskey

Book:Light in August

Source: Light in August

“For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of all regret. Mine was the weight Of every brooded wrong, the hate That stood behind each envious thrust, Mine every greed, mine every lust. And all the while for every grief, Each suffering, I craved relief With individual desire, – Craved all in vain! And felt fierce fire About a thousand people crawl; Perished with each, — then mourned for all!”

Source: Renascence and Other Poems

“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.”

Ifs Thinking World Years Facts Doubt Worst Evolution Thousand Ten Years Ago Ignorant Biology Thousand Years Deluded Perversity

Book:The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

“THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.”

Knows Wells Ideas Soul Done Would Be Felt Failing Risk Thousand Threat Revenge My Soul Insult Injury Length Retribution Utterance Impunity Avengers

Book:Poetry and Tales

Source: Poetry and Tales

“Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.”

Ifs Needs Heart Mean Broken Thousand Decided Retelling

Book:Night

Source: Night

“The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.”

Mind Beautiful Peace Walks Steps Path Meditation Wind Flower Thousand Blow Meditation Practice Blooming Flower Walking Meditation

Book:Happiness (EasyRead Edition)

Source: Happiness (EasyRead Edition)

“Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was Queen and he was King. In the autumn light, her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark they parted with leaves in their hair.”

World Made Light Girl Games House Dark Boys Sky Fields Hair Grew Kings Thousand Queens Autumn Crowns Handful Once Upon A Time History Of Love

Author:Nicole Krauss

“Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”

Source: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time

“But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)”

Ifs Needs Believe Heart Mean Stories Happens Care Pain Broken Honor Thousand Decided Infinite Retelling

Book:Night

Source: Night

“If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.”

Ifs Fighting Winning Left Thousand Eight Realms Opponents Fifty Pounds Combat Toms Cartoon Propositions Jerry Dubious Tom And Jerry

Book:Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.”

Believe Chance Thousand Quiet Luck Western Soldier Veterans Day

Book:All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

“Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.”

“She was my mother. I couldn't threaten to slap, stab, beat or even name call her. I tried to think of something to scare her into never mentioning the predicament with the Dreamsnatcher again. I'll become a swinger," I said. her eyes bugged. Uptight rearing made her uncomfortable with alternate lifestyles. "That's right. threesomes, foursomes, and more. bones knows about a thousand chicks who'd love to hop into bed with us. It'll be kinky, we'll get out freak on.-”

Thinking Knows Made Said Eye Mother Names Thousand Bed Beats Bones Lifestyle Uncomfortable Hops Scare Freak Her Eyes Chicks Slap Predicaments Kinky Uptight Threesome Foursomes

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.”

Ifs Years Has Beens School Lasts Time Known Four One Day Thousand High School Surprise Winter Clock Parks Halls Four Years Thousand Years Years Of Experience

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh?”

“It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.”

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.”

Littles Together Sleep Walks Dying Hair Thousand Ten Late Too Late Wages Moonlight

Author:Galway Kinnell

“Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.”

“In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.”

Knows Way Different Stars Millions Modern Thousand Hundred Distance Nine Galaxy Telescopes Containing Hubble

Book:A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

Source: A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

“There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land.”

Men Years Enough Dies Too Much Sky Land Strange Thousand Ten Surface Miles Flats Cracks Texas Thousand Years Enough Time Soon Enough

Book:Geek Love: A Novel

Source: Geek Love: A Novel

“Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!”

Firsts Mother Thousand Grateful Amendments Guardian Librarian First Amendment I Am Grateful Barricades

Author:Michael Moore

“If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.”

Ifs Ends Whole Stories Happened Thousand

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

Knows Men Way Want Needs Years Mind Looks Heart Made Running Evil Causes Can Do Thousand Creatures Devil Machines Bounds Odds Thousand Years Elbows Meanness

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.”

Ifs Believe Stills Wish Water Thousand Capable Objectives Uncertainty Preserves Seventies Grasping Fathom

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”

Knows Thousand Deserve Lifetime Catching Catching Fire Catching On Katniss And Peeta

Author:Suzanne Collins

“I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Believe Dies Imagination Thousand Conscience Brave Coward Brave Man

Author:Leo Rosten

“It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!”

Hard Age Today Stupid Thousand Blind Architecture Bored

Author:Andre Breton

“It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.”

Ifs Littles Five Thousand Thirty Texas Acres

Author:Betty Buckley

“She (Annabeth) put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. I (Percy) moved her fingers to the one spot that grounded me to my mortal life. A thousand volts of electricity seemed to arc through my body.”

Body Hands Thousand Skins Moved Fingers Spots Mortals Electricity Grounded Spine Arcs Annabeth Percabeth Volt

Author:Rick Riordan

“He leaned closer, their faces drawing near, and he could feel the heat of her breath mingling with his. He closed his eyes against the memory of a thousand other kisses and touched his lips to hers. He felt a kind of spark, and all at once he felt her slowly coming back to him. She was the arm that held him close in times of trouble, she was the whisper on the pillow beside him at night.”

Feels Kind Eye Faces Night Felt Memories Trouble Arms Thousand Kissing Breaths Lips Drawing Heat His Eyes Touched Sparks Coming Back Pillow Mingling Times Of Trouble

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”

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