Thousand Quotes - Page 17

• America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises

  Gil Scott-Heron

  America, Land, Hyde

  103 Copy quote

• You've got more potential than you could use in a thousand lifetimes, I see world class potential in you? But one of the secrets, is you're as good as the best ? you don't have to be better than the rest.

  Denis Waitley

  Class, Secret, Use

  5 Copy quote

• I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Kneeling, Firsts

  17 Copy quote

• Because the math is, if you - 5 percent of a million is a lot more than 5 percent of a thousand. So yeah, someone who makes more money, numerically, it's gonna be higher. But the greatest gains, percentage-wise, for people, are gonna be at the lower end of our plan.

  Ted Cruz

  Wise, Math, People

  7 Copy quote

• I'm excited about Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday. It's the feast of a thousand senses, so just eat, eat, eat, eat.

  Hannah Hart

  Holiday, Excited, My Favorite

  Source: www.mtv.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Projects, Eleven, Pops

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is a thousand things, but at the center is a choice.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Love Is, Choices

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.34, Penguin

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world.

  Ruchi Sanghvi

  College, People, World

  4 Copy quote

• The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence touches the ten thousand things but the people do not depend on him. With him there is no promotion or praise - he lets everything find its own enjoyment. He takes his stand on what cannot be fathomed and wanders where there is nothing at all.

  Burton Watson

  Kings, Government, People

  Burton Watson (2003). “Zhuangzi: Basic Writings”, p.92, Columbia University Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.

  Francisco J. Ayala

  Majority, Mutation, Generations

  4 Copy quote

• A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Sheep, Years

  4 Copy quote

• If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Ideas, Looking Good, Ten

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Dream, Night, Years

  11 Copy quote

• I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meanerthan I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Pigs, Cities

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.68, Jazzybee Verlag

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Play, People, Personality

  "How one Dazed journalist became Shia LaBeouf's pen-pal - and stared deep into the eyes of the metamodernist movie star". Interview with Aimee Cliff, www.dazeddigital.com. November 27, 2014.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the place. The same thing happened in Haiti, the same thing happened with other countries.

  Noam Chomsky

  Uplifting, Country, Couple

  Seminar at Bard College, New York, February 02, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.

  Gershon Legman

  Boys, Men

  Gershon Legman (1982). “No laughing matter: an analysis of sexual humor”, Indiana Univ Pr

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Beautiful, Alive

  10 Copy quote

• Pain is pain and sorrow is sorrow. It hurts. It limits. It impoverishes. It isolates. It restrains. It works devastation deep within the personality. It circumscribes in a thousand different ways. There is nothing good about it. But the gifts God can give with it are the richest the human spirit can know.

  Margaret Clarkson

  Hurt, Pain, Giving

  10 Copy quote

• God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.

  Joseph Bayly

  Years, People, Tonight

  7 Copy quote

• I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.

  Jim Harrison

  Winter, Car, Lovely

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Greatness, People, Expansion

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation.

  Dave Barry

  Real, School, Two

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.32, Ballantine Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once.

  Rory Bremner

  Years, Waiting, Doe

  4 Copy quote

• One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Successful, Men, Years

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source