Quotes of: Thousand Keyword

Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men...

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Who trusts the Bridge Builder when you wake to snow on your blankets and winter blasting through cracked walls and dinner for four is a fifty cent box of Kraft Dinner rationed in half and your dad tells you every single day that he just doesn't know ...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

When bridges seem to give way, we fall into Christ's safe arms, true bridge, and not into hopelessness. It is safe to trust! We can be too weak to go on because His strength is made perfect in utter brokenness and nail-pierced hands help up. It is sa...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth reflecting back at me: Every time fear freezes and worry writhes, every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advert...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miser...

Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just l...

The Little Prince

The reason I love rules and plans and religions is that people feel safe in them for a while. And, personally, I don't have any rules. I don't need them. There's a sense of order that goes on all the time as things move and change, and I am that harm...

A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate once again what was long dead. There would come a day, in fact, years later, when [she] would no lo...

A Thousand Splendid Suns

The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a new nation literally out of any old nation that comes along. In a word, what is unique is not America but what is called America...

What I Saw in America

A novel, in which all is created by the author's whim, must strike a more profound level of truth, or it is worthless." "And yet, I have heard you say that any novel that relieves your ennui for an hour has proved its usefulness." "You have a good me...

Sethra Lavode

Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSE The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994 "Extending these local figures to a national estimate would easily mean tens of thousands of cult victims per year reporting, plus undoubtedly more who d...

Lloyd DeMause

Renfield: He came and stood below my window in the moonlight. And he promised me things, not in words, but by doing them. Van Helsing: Doing them? Renfield: By making them happen. A red mist spread over the lawn, coming on like a flame of fire! And t...

Dracula

Don Zaluchi: I also don't believe in drugs. For years I paid my people extra so they wouldn't do that kind of business. Somebody comes to them and says, "I have powders; if you put up three, four thousand dollar investment, we can make fifty thousand...

The Godfather

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

A Dance with Dragons

Better than a thousand sayings Made up of useless words Is one word of meaning Which calms you to hear it.

The Dhammapada

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

Fathoms of Forgiveness

There are thousands of other women to choose from. You understand me? And this court runs on ambition alone.

Fury of the Phoenix

To end the greatest work designed, A thousand hands need but one mind.

Faust, Part Two

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

Gooseberries and Other Stories

You could live a thousand life times but you will never deserve that boy.

The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

If you can't help save thousands of people...then try just helping saving one!✌

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration