Thousand Quotes - Page 27

• I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memories, Bye, Grace

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.569, Scholastic Inc.

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• Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

  Lewis Carroll

  Son, Men, Snakes

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• 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

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• Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy becomes the measure of abhorrent acts, all sorts of unspeakable crimes somehow become acceptable. I may have found myself on the wrong side of government on torture. But I'm on the right side of history. There are things we should not do, even in the name of national security. One of them, I now firmly believe, is torture.

  John Kiriakou

  Believe, Names, Government

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• A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Devil, Defeat

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• 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

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• We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Art, Drama, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Yoshida Kenko

  Dream, Night, Years

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• Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Rude, Peaceful

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• It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.

  Timur

  Men, Hands, Absent

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• There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Skills, Two, People

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• 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.

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• Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

  Pete Seeger

  Men, Average, Firsts

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• Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

  Carl Jung

  Being Yourself, Soul, Desire

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

  Joseph Bayly

  Years, People, Tonight

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• A thousand approaches lie open to death.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Approach

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• I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hero, Two, Knowing

  Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

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• We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

  Michael Moore

  Moving, Games, People

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• Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning to become global. Before that the United States had been mostly a regional power - Britain was the biggest global power. After the Second World War, national security is everywhere, because we basically owned the world, so our security is threatened everywhere. Not just on our borders, but everywhere - so you have to have a thousand military bases around the world for "defense."

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, War, Borders

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

  Shannon Hale

  Wisdom, Soul, Glimpse

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• To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Wall, Heart, Darkness

  Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Three John Silence Stories”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

  John Green

  Mean, Roots, Long

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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• He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark. It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dark, Thinking, Years

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.509, Scholastic Inc.

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• After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches. I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.

  Wilson Rawls

  Eye, Years, Old Friends

  Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.235, Laurel Leaf

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