Thousand Quotes - Page 28

• A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Work, Rights, Credit

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.59, Oxford University Press

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• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Live Life, Power, People

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• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fear, Inspiration, Power

  Cited in Heinl, Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966).

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• The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

  Bono

  Christian, Powerful, Ideas

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• The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Passion, Fire, Excess

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

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• I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Education, Book, College

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• I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teamwork, Believe, Hard Work

  "Ray Bradbury: The Uncensored Biography" by Gene Beley, (p. 284), 2006.

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• Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.

  Jan Brewer

  People, Police, Borders

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• Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

  Dan Brown

  Spiritual, Years, Two

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

  Betty Buckley

  Texas, Acres, Littles

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• When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Warrior, Boys

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• We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

  George H. W. Bush

  Love, Peace, Stars

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

  George H. W. Bush

  Dream, Moving, Light

  1988 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 18 August 1988, Superdome, New Orleans, LA

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• Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Beach, Ocean, Dark

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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• A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Years, Scare

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• I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York.

  James Caan

  Loyalty, New York, Growing Up

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• I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

  James Cameron

  Rivers, Cost Of Living, Magic Moments

  James Cameron (1968). “What a way to run the tribe: selected articles, 1948-67”

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• There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Creating, Order

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• Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

  Thomas Carper

  Years, Sea, Dollars

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• A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Inches, Painter

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• I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Years, Stopping

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• With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Thinking, Men

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• We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

  Winston Churchill

  Rivers, Blood, Years

  "Ambition for Europe" broadcast, February 14, 1948.

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• Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Strength, Atheist, Heart

  "Opus Maximum".

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• Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, World

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