Thousand Quotes - Page 31

• In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

  Carl Jung

  Hiking, Hands, Progress

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Years, America, People

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• I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Beautiful, Dollars, Investing

  "Jackie Kennedy Onassis Stuns In A Long Printed Dress (PHOTO)" by Amanda McGowan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2012.

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• Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Science, Opportunity

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Years, People, Waiting

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• You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Conversation, Knows, Ifs

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• Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

  Dalai Lama

  Years, People, Lasts

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• If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

  Anne Lamott

  Looks, Moments, Made

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• Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

  George Henry Lewes

  Life, Beauty, Wisdom

  'A Spanish Drama' ch. 2

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• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Army, Blue

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.16, Fordham Univ Press

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• The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Running, Children, Contemplative Life

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.21, Random House

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• Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

  Jack London

  Song, Life Is, Life Is So Short

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

  Courtney Love

  Thinking, Velvet, Band

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

  James Russell Lowell

  Discipline, Example, Literature

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• I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

  Bela Lugosi

  Technique, Stage, Screens

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• Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

  Martin Luther

  God, Faith, Men

  "Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings".

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• I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

  Imelda Marcos

  Funny, Witty, Fashion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Romantic, Beauty

  Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

  Christopher Marlowe

  Ships, Faces, Towers

  Doctor Faustus act 5, sc. 1 (1604).

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• I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Heart, Simplicity

  "Life on Mars". Interview with Rob Tannenbaum, www.playboy.com. March 27, 2012.

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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Soul, Misunderstood, Genuine

  Felix Mendelssohn's letter to Marc-Andre Souchay (October 15, 1842) as quoted in "Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847" edited by Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Dr. Carl Mendelssohn Bartholdy (pp. 313-314), 1863.

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• The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can spend a thousand dollars on a jacket in a shop. And if you saw those two jackets walking down the street, you probably wouldn't know which was which.

  Helen Mirren

  Two, Clothes, Insane

  "Helen Mirren: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 2011.

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