Best thousand & done Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.”

Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

“When I'm feeling proud of myself, I should remember to ask myself why I think I am of any value at all. I have done nothing that a hundred thousand other people couldn't do, and most of them would probably do it better, and they probably wouldn't feel so self-important about it. I should always be ashamed of myself.”

People Thinking Feels Should Important Self Done Feelings Remember Values Asks Proud Thousand Hundred Ashamed Proud Of Myself

Author:John S. Hall

“I've always considered myself a failure: I feel I've never done anything wholly right. [...] Everybody will tell you, "Oh no, how can you say that, because ten thousand people clap you on a night?" But part of that is reflex action and part of it is because you're reasonably good. But if you're great, that's a different thing.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Different Done Feelings Action Night Failure Thousand Ten Musician Singers Reasonable Great Men Different Things Considering Reflexes Feeling Sad Clapping

Author:Ronnie Drew

“The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.”

Mind States Done Teaching Masters Thousand Ten State Of Mind Algebra Calculus Transmission Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.”

Years Done Can Do Atheism Ought Praying Thousand Worship Years Ago Positive Atheism Thousand Years Praying To God

Book:His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

“There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.”

Wells May Done Christian Tears Duty Thousand Crosses Cheerfulness

Book:The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction

“O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.”

Done Winning Thousand Humble Suits Subtle Maidens Framed Wooing

Book:Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem

Source: Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem

“What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!”

Source: Zoe: The History of Two Lives

“To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.”

Ifs May Done Marriage Example Couple Thousand Ten

Book:The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple

Source: The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple

“Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.”

Men Done Body Law Young Thousand Prepared Bars Young Man Abandon Graduates Practise

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.”

Done Thousand Wings Spread My Fair Lady

Author:Alan Jay Lerner

“The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not.”

Done Moments Running Lost Sin Virtue Talent Thousand Ten Waste Deeds Folly Cherish

Book:Matins and vespers: with hymns and occasional devotional pieces

Source: Matins and vespers: with hymns and occasional devotional pieces

“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.”

Love Giving Firsts Heart Done Millions Thousand Kissing Hundred Give Me Twenties Add Score Valentine's Day Kiss Me First Kiss Romantic Kiss Kissing Funny Just Kiss Me

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.”

Years Done Might Christian Wish Thousand Ten Christian Inspirational Thousand Years

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.”

“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.”

Ifs Feels Doe Has Beens Stills Different Matter Done Feelings Age Certain Emotion Struggle Thousand Intellectual Remains Ships Plenty Nuance Duration

Author:Ezra Pound

“After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.”

Should Made Done Language My Own Known Thousand Gods Will Request Thy Will Be Done

Book:Prevailing Prayer

Source: Prevailing Prayer

“If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.”

“I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.”

Persons Done Hours Memories Happened Rocks Objects Thousand Clothes Bones Miles Stuck Likes Collections Bags Dislike Spinning Thousand Miles Likes And Dislikes

Book:Junior

Source: Junior

“Even if you get a joke right you've done it a thousand times and sometimes there's times where it just doesn't work or someone doesn't agree with you. And I want to show that. I have had more hecklers because that's part of comedy is arguments, you know?”

Ifs Knows Want Sometimes Done Shows Comedy Thousand Jokes Argument Agree Hecklers

Author:Godfrey

“I definitely felt frightened [on Skyfall], but never in danger, because they were always so careful about everything. Some of the driving, particularly on that road around the sheer-drop cliff was actually done by stunt driver Ben Collin, who is otherwise known as The Stig from the TV show Pop Gear. He's a brilliant drive, nonetheless, it was terrifying to be careening along when a wrong turn would mean a thousand-foot drop and you're not in control and you want to slow the car down.”

Want Mean Done Shows Turns Felt Known Feet Car Danger Tvs Thousand Careful Pops Brilliant Driving Drivers Frightened Sheer Tv Shows Cliffs Gears Wrong Turn Skyfall Stig

Author:Naomie Harris

“Polish what you polish until it is like gold that has been refined a hundred times; anything that is done in a hurry is not deeply developed. Do what you do like a thousand-pound catapult; one who pops off too easily does not accomplish much.”

Doe Has Beens Done Thousand Hundred Gold Pops Accomplish Taoism Pounds Polish Refined Catapults

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.”

Knows Firsts Heart Done Study Students Thousand Ten Doctors Males Medical Agendas Nancy Heart Attack Protocol Aspirin Women's Health

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“Even if I'm doing a show and there's five people in the audience and the sound system is terrible - I mean, it's been a while but I've certainly done those kind of shows where it's just every conceivable thing is against you - you still have music. It's still something that's real whether there's five people in the audience or a hundred thousand people in the audience. And that's always been there for me.”

People Ifs Kind Mean Stills Real Done Shows Sound Audience Five Terrible Thousand Hundred Sound Systems

Author:Joan Osborne

“We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.”

Want Years Believe Done Past Worry Thousand Consequence Thousand Years Coming Back

Author:Sylvia Earle

“In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back.”

Years Book Ends Done Novel Sun Effects Thousand Splendid Sabbatical Thousand Splendid Suns

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“We have a very large constituency in the world from all of the years that we've done workshops, retreats, and talks. I would say there a few thousand people out there that have some relationship to what we do.”

People World Years Done Thousand Retreat Workshops

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“This movie [Don Jon] played at Sundance and South by Southwest and Berlin. And it just played - well...by the time it played at Toronto recently, it was already done. But getting to watch it with a thousand people is hugely informative.”

People Wells Done Watches Thousand South Berlin Toronto Informative Sundance

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.”

Thinking Done Play Wish My Own Creativity Thousand Ten Drummer Playing Drums

Author:Buddy Rich

“How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.”

Years War Done Shows Lying Culture Written Blood Thousand Accounts Torture Streams Hospitals Thousand Years Chamber

Book:Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

“There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.”

Ifs Done Helping Voice Cry Thousand Hundred

Book:Cry, the Beloved Country

Source: Cry, the Beloved Country

“Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.”

People Thinking Years Firsts Two Done Today Turns Chance Known Steps Forever Heard Return Battle Thousand Shots Dignity Soldier Command First Steps Thousand Years Statues Turning Points

Author:Leon Uris

“But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Two Ends Done Would Be Today Lasts Jesus Church Thousand Spokes Jail Thousand Years Framed

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“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

“What are you doing here? (Artemis) I wanted to thank you for what you did tonight, but as I considered that, it dawned on me that you have never once in eleven thousand years done anything for me for free. The sheer fear factor of that realization alone has made me come seeking you. So what gives? (Acheron)”

Giving Years Made Done Wanted Thousand Seeking Factors Realization Tonight Sheer Thousand Years Eleven Artemis

Book:Seize The Night

Source: Seize The Night

“I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to the beguiling moon. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially.”

Ifs Done Eye Used Night Walks Tree Car Arms Thousand Moon Raised Crowds Driven Grass Hats My Sister Airplane Worn Solo Bathroom Faded

Book:The Girls

Source: The Girls

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”

Source: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“But if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering.”

Ifs Men Different Done Seems Turns Thousand Approach Flattering Turn Me

Book:Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before, often. It’s one of those drunken long shots which just might, at least theoretically, once in ten thousand tries, throw a relationship right out of its orbit and send it whizzing off on another. Do women ever stop trying? No. But, because they never stop, they learn to be good losers.”

Trying Long Done Might Thousand Ten Kissing Mouths Shots Embrace Sticks Tongue Be Good Loser Orbit Stop Trying Long Shots

Author:Christopher Isherwood

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