Then let amourous kisses dwell
On our lips, begin and tell
A Thousand and a Hundred score
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ROBERT HERRICK Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; then to that twenty, add a hundred more; a thousand to tha...
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A thousand miles away from you
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A th...
AMIT ABRAHAM Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.
Age: five thousand three hundred...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I want those thousand years with you, Evie, you have no idea how much I want them. I want a thousand...
AMY A. BARTOL When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI Our life contains a thousand springs,
And dies if one be gone.
Strange that a harp of thou...
WILLIAM BILLINGS When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. LAURA MILLER And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And a hundred visions and revisions
T.S. ELIOT HYMN OF THE DIVINE DANDELION
I am born as the sun,
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name’s the mother
of the ten thousand things...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY When a novel has two hundred thousand words, then it is possible for the reader to experience two hu...
JANE SMILEY And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty ...
BIBLE And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand l...
BIBLE Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred ...
T.S. ELIOT Hitch hiked a thousand
miles and brought
You wine
JACK KEROUAC Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail,
And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale:
'Tim...
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And a ton came down on a gaol,
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MERVYN PEAKE What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a tho...
ABHIJIT NASKAR But it will make mistakes," she says. "Hadoop will probably get us from a hundred thousand buildings...
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And every cover is a door...
NANCY BYRD TURNER Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks."
-...
MARIO PUZO You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS A hundred (thousand) and up is not out of reach at all.
LAURA DONOGHUE A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might ...
PLATO CALL YOURSELF
Look deep in the mirror
And say: 'I LOVE YOU'
And immediately
SUZY KASSEM And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand...
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WILLIAM MORRIS For the first forty days a child
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BERTOLT BRECHT Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.
TURKISH PROVERB A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat: that is progress.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Three hundred thousand manufactured homes? People are screaming about that, ... I tell you, FEMA is ...
JEFF FLAKE There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;...
T.S. ELIOT I spent millons of years in the world
of inorganic things
as a star, as a rock...
Then I di...
RUMI Rubbish. The Taj Mahal is only a hundred eighty-six square feet. This house has twenty-five thousand...
MICHELLE HODKIN Keep your heart clear
And transparent,
And you will
Never be bound.
A single dis...
RYōKAN This world
that was our home
for a brief spell
never brought us anything
but pai...
OMAR KHAYYáM Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-f...
EDWARD BALL The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footme...
BIBLE The first music I ever heard
was only one hundred and sixty days
after I was conceived. ...
KAMAND KOJOURI It's always times like these when I think of you and I wonder if you ever think of me.
VANESSA CARLTON History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
anything out. I have rea...
PAT CONROY Come away, come away, Death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot."
She raised her hand. "Don't."
ILONA ANDREWS I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxe...
BIBLE You didn’t warn us about this, Readier,’ said Stowley resentfully.
Gilt waved his han...
TERRY PRATCHETT A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep / And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. / Welcome.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a ...
ERNEST MANDEL The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, / Beside th...
BIBLE => When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to sm...
STEPHENIE MEYER You can have all the information on culture in the world–’ Pix continues.
'We don’t posse...
M. BLACK I love you.
I love you a thousand times.
I love you an irrational number.
And I will...
KAMAND KOJOURI Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,
Few ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Headstones:
What I asked was, "Would you MARRY me?!!"
"This time I'll count to...
NEIL LECKMAN Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
[News conference, April 21 1961...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I sort of fell."
"Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet?
RICK RIORDAN The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.
MEREDITH WILLSON I just stare at him. I want to ask him a thousand questions, but I can tell he doesn't want to be as...
MELINA MARCHETTA When you kiss me,
your lips upon mine,
your kisses taste so sweet,
just like a glass ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to b...
BIBLE So before we end and then begin
We'll drink a toast to how it's been
A few more hours to b...
BILLY JOEL For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
BIBLE Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I cry often.
I cry and cleanse my
face with my tears and
swim to the center
...
A.P. SWEET The message of love or beauty or hope needs to be said by a hundred thousand different voices, writt...
LUCY H. PEARCE Greater in battle
than the man who would conquer
a thousand-thousand men,
is he who w...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA So I was thinking, there're eighty-six thousand, four hundred seconds in a day, right? There're one ...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now c...
MARK TWAIN It's extremely frustrating. We're delighted with the long-term commitment and support of our custome...
BILL HAMBRECHT You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand
sesterces; lend me rather a hundred th...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe...
SHARIF MOHAMED She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first on...
JOHN F. KENNEDY A Best Picture nomination and win will mean several hundred thousand additional DVD sales and higher...
TOM ORTENBERG
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"I'd hate the dear ol...
DIANA GABALDON It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.
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DIANA GABALDON Ye need not be scairt of me," he said softly. "Nor anyone here, so long as I'm with ye." - Jaime
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No, I thought. I won't...
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DIANA GABALDON Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.
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Aroused by my voice, ...
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DIANA GABALDON Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Engl...
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DIANA GABALDON You'll lie wi' me now," he said quietly. "And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your reve...
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DIANA GABALDON Do you really think we'll ever--"
"I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. ...
DIANA GABALDON You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.
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DIANA GABALDON When you took me from the witch trial at Cranesmuir--you said then that you would have died with me,...
DIANA GABALDON Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.
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DIANA GABALDON Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you.
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DIANA GABALDON I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped m...
DIANA GABALDON I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgator...
DIANA GABALDON What's that you're doing, Sassenach?"
"Making out little Gizmo's birth certificate--so fa...
DIANA GABALDON Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna...
DIANA GABALDON All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.
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DIANA GABALDON 'Rob Roy' was a great adaptation. It was a lot better than 'Braveheart.'
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DIANA GABALDON What is it about ye, Sassenach, I wonder?” he said conversationally, eyes still fixed on Myers. DIANA GABALDON I thought he said you weren’t drunk if you could find your arse with both hands.”
He ...
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DIANA GABALDON My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', was nominated for a number of book awards, one ...
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DIANA GABALDON Roger speaking to Brianna:
It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."
You do rem...
DIANA GABALDON I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looki...
DIANA GABALDON To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.
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DIANA GABALDON The position of sun and moon on the Feast of Beltane" is one, with a list if two hundred paired figu...
DIANA GABALDON For my sake,” he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, “...
DIANA GABALDON If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband ...
DIANA GABALDON And what's wrong wi' the way ye smell?' he said heatedly. 'At least ye smelt like a woman, not a dam...
DIANA GABALDON One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the wor...
DIANA GABALDON Some enterprising rabbit had dug its way under the stakes of my garden again. One voracious rabbit c...
DIANA GABALDON I know what it felt . . . like when I . . . thought you were dead, and-" A small gasp for breath, an...
DIANA GABALDON (...) When I asked my Da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd h...
DIANA GABALDON Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does ...
DIANA GABALDON My own eyes went to Jamie, who had come to join Fergus and Ian by the sideboard. Still here, thank G...
DIANA GABALDON Take off your shirt," I said, sitting up and pulling at the hem of the garment.
"Why?" he...
DIANA GABALDON Jaime, you must be half-dead"
He laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm ha...
DIANA GABALDON ...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished ...
DIANA GABALDON For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he sai...
DIANA GABALDON Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for...
DIANA GABALDON Grey sat in his bedchamber, unshaven and attired in his nightshirt, banyan, and slippers, drinking t...
DIANA GABALDON I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog b...
DIANA GABALDON When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I ...
DIANA GABALDON I regarded him gently over my own bowl of stew. He was very large, solid, and beautifully formed. An...
DIANA GABALDON When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last word...
DIANA GABALDON Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.
DIANA GABALDON I am a sassenach, after all,” I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. �...
DIANA GABALDON Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow....
DIANA GABALDON I fought back the memory of our wedding night. He was a virgin; his hands trembled when he touched m...
DIANA GABALDON Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
DIANA GABALDON A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!
DIANA GABALDON Lord, he’d said. Let me be enough. That prayer had lodged in my heart like an arrow when I’d hea...
DIANA GABALDON Let me be enough,
DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON Come to bed, a nighean. Nothing hurts when ye love me.” He was right; nothing did.
DIANA GABALDON Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some ...
DIANA GABALDON Where d'ye think he is now?" Jenny said suddenly. "Ian, I mean."
He glanced at the house, then ...
DIANA GABALDON That dog is a wolf, is he not?'
'Aye, well, mostly.'
A small flash of hazel to...
DIANA GABALDON When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened ...
DIANA GABALDON For a long time," he said at last, "when I was small, I pretended to myself that I was the bastard o...
DIANA GABALDON A man’s life had to have more purpose than only to feed himself each day.
DIANA GABALDON Oh, foisted, is it?" cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. "Such a word! And if it means what...
DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON I feel maybe like you did,” he whispered to her, too low to wake her. “When ye came through the ...
DIANA GABALDON Does your knee still hurt, Sassenach?” he asked, seeing me rub it. It hadn’t ever quite recovere...
DIANA GABALDON This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air...
DIANA GABALDON You do mean it, then,” I said. “You feel … er … betrothed to her?” “Well, of course ...
DIANA GABALDON And in the end, it does not matter. I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which...
DIANA GABALDON Men are made in God's image, or so I am told. Likewise that we differ from the animals in having rea...
DIANA GABALDON Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and ...
DIANA GABALDON Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really ...
DIANA ROSS The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
DIANA VREELAND I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
DIANA KRALL Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
DIANA VREELAND I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA