Thousand Quotes

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.

There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.

There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons.

God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

I don’t want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood.