Thousand Quotes - Page 37

• Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Squares, Tragedy, Kabul

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• Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don't feel that way because of the wounds and the scars we carry from the past or because of the uncertainty of the future. It is doubtful that we came to feel undeserving on our own. We were helped to feel unworthy. We were taught it in a thousand ways when we were little, and we learned our lessons well.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Past, Insecurity

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• Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Years, Cities, Rivers

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was way too many and a thousand never enough.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Choices, Drug, Sampling

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• Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

  Rumi

  Heart, Tongue, Lips

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• I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny, I have to face the final battle by myself, maybe lonely, maybe desolate, maybe against formidable odds. But I was not giving up. I had only one Teammate. And He moved, as ever, in mysterious ways. But I was a Christian, and He had somehow saved me from a thousand AK-47 bullets on that day. No one had shot me, which was well nigh beyond all comprehension.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Christian, Lonely, Giving Up

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• What I know about living is the pain is never just ours Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo So I keep a listening to the moment the grief becomes a window When I can see what I couldn’t see before, through the glass of my most battered dream, I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind and when it did, it scattered a thousand seeds. So the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin, don’t try to put me back in just say here we are together at the window aching for it to all get better

  Andrea Gibson

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

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• People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

  Stephen King

  Country, Song, Sweet

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.11, Titan Books

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• But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again.

  John Steinbeck

  Baby, Dust, Years

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.69, Hamilton Books

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• No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Snow, Alive

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• It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.502

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• God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him.

  John Piper

  Children, Mean, Age

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.181, Multnomah

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• Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.

  Eugene Field

  Cheer, Book, Years

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.

  Rick Riordan

  Hate, Thinking, Years

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• October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!

  Rainbow Rowell

  Autumn, Nurse, Grace

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• She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Flower, Heart, Two

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• Hermes's shoulders sagged. "They'll try, Percy. Oh, we'll all try to keep our promise. And maybe for a while things will get better. But we gods have never been good at keeping oaths. You were born because of a broken promise, eh? Eventually we'll become forgetful. We always do." "You can change." Hermes laughed. "After three thousand years, you think the gods can change their nature?" "Yeah," I said. "I do.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Years, Broken

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.256, Penguin UK

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• Cath couldn't stop thinking about Levi and his ten thousand smiles.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Thinking, Ten

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• It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues. It is a truly astounding sight when every tree in a landscape becomes individual, when each winding back highway and plump hillside is suddenly and infinitely splashed with every sharp shade that nature can bestow - flaming scarlet, lustrous gold, throbbing vermilion, fiery orange.

  Bill Bryson

  Autumn, Green Fields, Sight

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Sep 27, 2015

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• My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.

  Anais Nin

  Real, Adventure, Self

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• What-what do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence. The voice cackled maliciously. 'To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!' "Only a thousand times?" Percy murmured. "Oh, good...I thought we were in trouble.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Night, Names

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• [...] "I recall what you said to me once," Will went on. "That words have the power to change us. Your words have changed me, Tess; they have made me a better man than I would have been otherwise. Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die -

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Men, Together

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.539, Simon and Schuster

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• My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

  Charles Bukowski

  Heart, Years, People

  Charles Bukowski (2011). “New Poems Book Two”, p.116, Random House

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• One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Laughter, Anger

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

  Edward Abbey

  Positive, Years, Atheism

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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