Quotes about thousand

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Source: Meditations

Source: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

Source: Look Homeward, Angel

Source: Skinny-Dipping

Source: The Last Olympian

Source: The Weight of Water

Source: The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Titan's Curse

Source: Mind Game

Source: Dona Rosita la soltera

Source: Fatherhood

50 Years of Boyd K. Packer and Church History http://www.lds.org/church/news/50-years-of-boyd-k-packer-and-church-history Boyd K. Packer, 50 Years Church History, 30 September 2011

Source: Ender in Exile

Source: Night Embrace

Source: The Cabinet of Curiosities

Source: Geek Love

Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Source: The Dark Tower

Source: The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Source: The Passage Trilogy, The Passage (2010)

Source: The Fountainhead

Source: Lone Wolf

Source: MacRieve

Source: My Name Is Memory

Source: The Princess Bride

Variant: You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one «yes» from God.

Source: Guilty Pleasures

Source: Magic Strikes

Source: War and Peace

Source: The Rediscovery of Man

Source: The Lightning Thief

Source: Fantasy Lover

Source: Interview with the Vampire

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Source: Prep

Source: The Neverending Story

Source: Cosmos

Source: The Lightning Thief

Source: Speak

Source: Robinson Crusoe

Speech in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940 "War Situation" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1940/jun/18/war-situation#column_60.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Source: Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
Context: Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us now. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: Wolves of the Calla

Source: The Kite Runner

Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Night Pleasures

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

Source: Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 11: Castle Rock - The first edition used the term "painted niggers", later editions changed this to "painted savages" or "painted Indians".
Context: Ralph heard the great rock long before he saw it. He was aware of a jolt in the earth that came to him through the soles of his feet, and the breaking sound of stones at the top of the cliff. Then the monstrous red thing bounded across the neck and he flung himself flat while the tribe shrieked.
The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Piggy, saying nothing, with no time for even a grunt, travelled through the air sideways from the rock, turning over as he went. The rock bounded twice and was lost in the forest. Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across that square, red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff came out and turned red. Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig's after it has been killed. Then the sea breathed again in a long, slow sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went, sucking back again, the body of Piggy was gone.
This time the silence was complete. Ralph's lips formed a word but no sound came.
Suddenly Jack bounded out from the tribe and began screaming wildly.
"See? See? That's what you'll get! I meant that! There isn't a tribe for you any more! The conch is gone —"
He ran forward, stooping.
"I'm Chief!"

Source: The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Princess (2013), p. 539, spoken by Will
reference to quote from Clockwork Angel
Context: I recall what you said to me once, that words have the power to change us. Your words have changed me, Tess; they have made me a better man than I would have been otherwise. Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die.

Source: Unwind

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Rum Diary

Walden (1854)
Source: Walden, or Life in the Woods
Context: There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.<!--p.87

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Source: So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance

Source: Aleph

Source: Bone Gap

Faustus, Act V, scene i, lines 91–93
Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
Source: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Eye Scream

Source: An O'Brien Family Christmas

Source: The Storyteller

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Innkeeper's wife
A Child is Born (1942)
Context: Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost
Minute by minute, day by dragging day,
In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways,
The smooth appeasing compromises of time,
Which are King Herod and King Herod's men,
Always and always. Life can be
Lost without vision but not lost by death,
Lost by not caring, willing, going on
Beyond the ragged edge of fortitude
To something more — something no man has ever seen.
Context: Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost
Minute by minute, day by dragging day,
In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways,
The smooth appeasing compromises of time,
Which are King Herod and King Herod's men,
Always and always. Life can be
Lost without vision but not lost by death,
Lost by not caring, willing, going on
Beyond the ragged edge of fortitude
To something more — something no man has ever seen.
You who love money, you who love yourself,
You who love bitterness, and I who loved
and lost and thought I could not love again,
And all the people of this little town,
Rise up! The loves we had were not enough.
Something is loosed to change the shaken world,
And with it we must change!

Source: Unleash the Night

Source: The Velvet Room

Source: Alphabet Weekends

Source: Prison Writings

Source: My Story

Source: Eden Close

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Context: Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

Source: The Red Pyramid

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

1961, Inaugural Address
Context: If a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

"On the Sea" (1817)

Source: The Moon and I