Thousand Quotes - Page 34

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

Horace Walpole

Hours, Miles, Found

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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

Jack Welch

Inspirational, Teaching, Names

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It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

John Archibald Wheeler

Events, Degrees, Hot

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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Walt Whitman

Science, Years, Hearing

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.63, NYU Press

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What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

Simon Wiesenthal

Power, Hands, Years

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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

Billy Wilder

Work, Dark, Together

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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

E. O. Wilson

Science, Years, Environmental

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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson

Inspirational, Patriotic, Light

Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Virginia Woolf

Years, Mind, Body

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.834, Wordsworth Editions

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In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Stefan Zweig

Life, Regret, Years

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What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.

Douglas Rushkoff

Impact, Years, Iron

"Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now". Book by Douglas Rushkoff, www.wired.com. 2004.

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My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Beer, Sea, Soul

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What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Book, Reading, Long

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Over the Teacups”, p.157, Reprint Services Corporation

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For you, a thousand times over

Khaled Hosseini

Love, Circularity, Slingshots

Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.110, A&C Black

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On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.

David Sedaris

Christmas, Adversity, Two

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If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!

Meher Baba

Eye, Years, Clothes

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To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

Robert Harris

Girlfriend, Years, Sides

Robert Harris (2008). “The Ghost”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.

Eugene Ionesco

Philosophy, Real, Thinking

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Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers. For me happiness was to share singing, praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes. I ask forgiveness for my bad ways: my life had no use on earth.

Pablo Neruda

Memories, Eye, Kissing

Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

Richard Bach

Son, Light, Numbers

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.

Dag Hammarskjold

Self, Anchors, Greed

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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

William Shakespeare

Success, Honesty, Men

'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [179]

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I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.

Walt Whitman

Years, Waiting, Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.

Virginia Woolf

Communication, Self, Two

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

George Bernard Shaw

Food, Vegetarianism, Two

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