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traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land. — Ibn Battuta

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. — William Cowper

Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes — Grabe

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. — Anton Chekhov

Even after a thousand pages we don't want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people who live there. — Stephen King

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. — Andrew Solomon

Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one. — Rumi

There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people. — Jerry Seinfeld

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. — Amy Lowell

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak. — Rumi

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair) — George Gordon Byron

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative. — Honore De Balzac

He had a dozen arguments with her before breakfast, and a thousand passionate reconciliations before he went to sleep. — Jojo Moyes

God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past — Ani DiFranco

You can give me a thousand reasons why not to do something, but give me one good reason why, and I'll do it. — Lorraine Holloway-White

Keep your heart clear
And transparent,
And you will
Never be bound.
A single disturbed thought
Creates ten thousand distractions. — Ryokan

I would love to learn archery. Unfortunately I'm too busy writing and drawing ten thousand comics a month. Maybe one day! — Jeff Lemire

Oh ... It's too long a story. I never bore people I haven't know for at least a thousand years. — J.D. Salinger

God has a thousand-year calendar with only one day marked on it. It is marked "TODAY". — Reinhard Bonnke

Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words. — Erez Lieberman Aiden

I don't know anything that's quite so dead as a man who's fallen three or four thousand feet off the edge of a cloud. — George Horace Lorimer

One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it. — Andre Soltner

When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. — Felix Adler

The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done. — Lemony Snicket

There's a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car. — Scott Ian

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. — Robert Staughton Lynd

Once in a thousand years, you know, one cat is allowed to speak. My cats are philosophers-neither of them ever cries over spilt milk. — L.M. Montgomery

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God. — Ann Voskamp

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. — Richard Bach

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves. — Idries Shah

To know her is to realize the thousand forms of inquiry. — Anthony Doerr

A thousand pounds for clothes
when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. LaoTzu. Just make sure that you step in the right direction. — Lao-Tzu

Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years' time. — Idries Shah

A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years. — Victor Hugo

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid Â£5 per thousand, which was slave labour. — Neil Oliver

Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough. — Muhammad Ali

In every man there is an eye of the soul, which ... is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen. — Plato

the screen and keyboard account for much of computers' weight. The intelligent part of a computer is a thousand times smaller than a Gucci buckle. — Ted Sargent

Better a thousand times the Arab untouched. The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn. — Scott Anderson

A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. — Pio Of Pietrelcina

No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes. — George Eliot

My part is not feeding five thousand men. My part is giving my lunch to Jesus. — Emily P. Freeman

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God. — Kerry Thornley

You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years. — Margaret Sullavan

I'll see you again in a thousand years. — Juice Newton

A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim

A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease. — George Washington

With more than thirty thousand suicides a year, the act is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. — Craig Johnson

The votes of a hundred or a thousand blockheads set the course for the enlightened. — Anonymous

When I look in the mirror, I see about a thousand different Jadas. — Jada Pinkett Smith

Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album. — Aspen Matis

I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago ... because she's going to have the nuclear code. — Matt Damon

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose

I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk. — Rebecca Solnit

Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years. — G.K. Chesterton

Three syllables and three thousand memories. — Diana Peterfreund

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off. — E.B. White

I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time. — Walt Whitman

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. — Alexander Pope

You're the only person I'd fly three thousand miles to see. — E.L. James

The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.
- RJPeters — R.J. Peters

A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;
And pay them at thy leisure, one by one. — William Shakespeare

The slightest act of love holds greater spiritual power than a thousand rituals. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men. — Khalil Gibran

I want to tie one thousand balloons around my neck
and float up
while slowly dying of happiness. — Matthew Donahoo

It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities. — Lars Von Trier

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises. — Oliver Stone

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. — Napoleon Bonaparte

One test result is the worth one-thousand expert opinions. — Werner Von Braun

I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother. — Andrea Gibson

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth. — Hafez

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile. — Khaled Hosseini

There were a thousand ways to imagine someone unhappy and so few ways to imagine someone contented. — Anna Quindlen

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good. — Marcus Aurelius

Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand. — Neil Turok

They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse. — Terry Pratchett

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze. — Orson Welles

I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down. — Bella James

There is more ability to meditate in a rabbit than in one thousand Buddhists. — Daniel Marques

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The word hope first appeared in English about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. But — Paul Kalanithi

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year. — Michael Moore

And I began walking. A thousand miles, or two, I would carry her all the way to Dalbreck if I had to. No one would pry her from my arms again. — Mary E. Pearson

good works gathered in a thousand ages, such as deeds of generosity, or offerings to the blissful ones, a single flash of anger shatters them. — Santideva

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. — Duke Snider

Khal Drogo has a thousand horses, tonight he looks for a different sort of mount. — George R R Martin

Disciplining a righteous person once yields better results than disciplining an evil person a thousand times. — Matshona Dhliwayo

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths. — Al David

The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden. — Umar

My heart is a thousand years old. — Charles Bukowski

Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult. — Faraaz Kazi

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people. — Gelsey Kirkland

Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment. — Mark Helprin

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record. — Conway Twitty

When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations — Bruce Cockburn

But my apology was a thousand apologies. — Deb Caletti