(709 quotes found)
“Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i”
Louis L'Amour
“You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.”
Burton Cummings
“Why shall he perform bad Karma who has been properly nurtured for many a thousand months and years?”
Rig Veda
“I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .”
Hans Christian Andersen
“I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.”
Pete Rose
“When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.”
Walter Cronkite
“If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?”
David Gates
“When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.”
