Thousand Quotes - Page 35

• A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Forever, Agitation, Groups

  38 Copy quote

• So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.

  Wendell Berry

  Years, Practice, Two

  Wendell Berry, “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Faces, Saws

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.112, Om Books International

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Doctors, Hair, Cells

  5 Copy quote

• The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.

  Annie Dillard

  Prayer, Wings, Water

  20 Copy quote

• A moment might be a thousand different things.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Might, Different

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.215, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  21 Copy quote

• We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN

  Thornton Wilder

  Stars, Years, Play

  Thornton Wilder (1957). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

• Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Two, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.144

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

  Leonard Peltier

  Lying, Voice, Guilt

  Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.23, St. Martin's Griffin

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Years, Hatred, Alive

  44 Copy quote

• We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

  Donald Hall

  Men, Years, Shining

  Donald Hall (1990). “Old and New Poems”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.

  Italo Calvino

  Kissing, Flavor, Taste

  4 Copy quote

• And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

  William Wordsworth

  Home, Cooking, Tables

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.87

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Science, Together

  4 Copy quote

• There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Two, Allies, Four

  "The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. VIII : The Professor Explains, 1908.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

  Ellen G. White

  Father, Way, Heavenly

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Our Father Cares”, Review and Herald Pub Assoc

  330 Copy quote

  Show source

• People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Heart, Eye, Garden

  5 Copy quote

• Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hate, Philosophy, Lying

  85 Copy quote

• We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again." I think that if I had my choice, I'd prefer one of those quiet centuries," Garion said glumly. Oh, no," Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. "Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

  David Eddings

  Adventure, Thinking, Years

  57 Copy quote

• And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Fighting, Choices Made, Decision

  4 Copy quote

• Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Mind, Bars

  1593 Messenger to Sly.TheTaming of the Shrew, Induction 2, l.131-2.

  97 Copy quote

  Show source

• She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.

  Aleister Crowley

  Opportunity, Men, Fire

  30 Copy quote

• He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.

  Milan Kundera

  Echoes, Two, Essentials

  5 Copy quote

• How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Tasks

  9 Copy quote