Quotes of: Thousand-miles Keyword

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that im...

Long Walk to Freedom

If one word does not succeed, ten thousand are of no avail.

Chinese

The battle of Iwo Jima would quickly turn into a primitive contest of gladiators: Japanese gladiators fighting from caves and tunnels like the catacombs of the Colosseum, and American gladiators aboveground, exposed on all sides, using liquid gasolin...

Flags of Our Fathers

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

3,117 people had lost their lives in the flood. And the king had missed breakfast

A Thousand Perfect Things

I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you

Waiting for Mercy

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Theodore Roosevelt

Endings are really hard to do, and it's hard to do an ending where it's sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible.

Jennifer Hale

A thousand moments lost because you took them for granted, just because you expected a thousand more.

Saleem Sharma

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Yayoi Kusama

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

Martin Van Creveld

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

Spouses that love each other say a thousand things without speaking.

Chinese

Sometimes it takes only an hour to get a reputation that lasts for a thousand years.

Japanese

When ten thousand soldiers lie rotting, the general's reputation is enhanced.

Japanese

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promise of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thous...

The Great Gatsby

There is nothing particularly special about that location of the centre of mass. If you were to find yourself at the precise spot that is the centre of mass of the earth-moon system, the only thing unusual that you would notice is that there would be...

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming