(709 quotes found)
“All honor to him who shall win the prize,'The world has cried for a thousand years;But to him who tries and fails and dies,I give great honor and glory and tears.”
Joaquin Miller
“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
“Among the many thousands of things that I have never been able to understand, one in particular stands out. That is the question of who was the first person who stood by a pile of sand and said, "You know, I bet if we took some of this and mixed it with a little potash and heated it, we could make a material that would be solid and yet transparent. We could call it glass." Call me obtuse, but you could stand me on a beach till the end of time and never would it occur to me to try to make it into windows.”
Bill Bryson
“A coward dies a thousand deaths... a soldier dies but once.”
Tupac Shakur
“I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.”
Billy Joel
“We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
W. H. Auden
“Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.”
Catullus
“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil”
Charles Simmons
