Thousand Quotes - Page 38

• I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

  Edward Abbey

  Confused, Years, America

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• I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mirrors, Mouths, Bleeding

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• I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. “Which is all very well,” she said bitterly, “but the only essay subject you can find enough Early Anglo-Saxon words for is ‘How to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hall’.

  Helene Hanff

  Writing, Men, Guilt

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• People with yuan fen are destined to like one another; Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart. But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals, They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Two, People, Sitting

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• That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Sometimes

  Melissa de la Cruz (2013). “Skinny-Dipping”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?

  Joseph Heller

  Book, Men, Islands

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• Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.

  Frances Mayes

  Chance, Offers

  "Under the Tuscan Sun". www.imdb.com. September 20, 2003.

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• The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

  Orson Scott Card

  Past, Fabric, Hundred

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.858, Macmillan

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• Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Integrity, Years, Over You

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time.

  Eudora Welty

  Book, Home, Sea

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• I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Jail, Soul, Coward

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

  Voltaire

  Soul, Four, Volume

  "Voltaire – The Philosophical Works".

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• Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

  Walt Whitman

  Long, Acres, Earth

  Walt Whitman, Robert Hass (2010). “Song of Myself, and Other Poems”, p.80, Counterpoint Press

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• He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Views, Two

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center.

  James Frey

  Winning, Names, Expansion

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• The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Prayer, Powerful

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• Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Men, Giving

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.353, Ballantine Books

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• I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

  Meg Cabot

  Eight, Long, Gone

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Including a mention of your impressive record....The man who had penetrated and copied over a thousand techniques.. Kakashi the mirror ninja.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Men, Mirrors, Technique

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• Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.

  Philip Pullman

  Stars, Fall, Home

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sweet, Hurt

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [152]

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• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

  George Sand

  Queens, Powerful, Writing

  George Sand “Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand”, Library of Alexandria

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• When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

  Gustave Flaubert

  Writing, Thinking, Make You Think

  Gustave Flaubert (1991). “Early Writings”, p.10, U of Nebraska Press

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• Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Science, Space, Progress

  The Sirens of Titan epigraph (1959)

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• Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

  Rumi

  Hurt, Grief, Finding Love

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