You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Steve Prefontaine

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Swami Vivekananda

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
Horace Walpole

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
Carl Jung

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.
William Glasser

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin

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

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Richard Bach

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Virginia Woolf

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
Fred Allen

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr

Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on.
Jeff Foxworthy

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
Judy Garland