Famous quotes containing the words thousand, long and/or scale:
“Until that time comes I’ll live a thousand hopes, die a thousand times.”
—Edward T. Lowe. Erle C. Kenton. Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney)
“For in itself a thought,
A slumbering thought, is capable of years,
And curdles a long life into one hour.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)