Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.
– GK Chesterton
Related Quotes:
- What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour. – John Green
- You can strike out at people ,Strike off your business but you can not STRIKE down someones dreams because you can not achieve yours~bns – Bluenscottish
- The glass is neither half empty, nor half full. The glass is just a glass and it’s content can perpetually change with your perception. – Jennifer Sodini
- A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big. – Scott Edward Shjefte
- When you strike the shepherd you strike the sheep. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- In this instant of danger they realized they were each other’s reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being. – Anas Nin
- Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the day I became a mother. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- The instant is not in time — time is in the instant. – John Barbour
- This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream. – JeanPaul Sartre
- If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you – Shannon Dermott
- A glass of water with peace is better than several glasses of wine with trouble. Here’s a glass of water . . . Cheers to the good life – Constance Friday
- Breaking through the glass ceiling is only possible if you are stronger than glass. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
- Life is like water in a glass. Drop by drop the glass empties. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Life is as sad as a glass of grenadine.’ … It’s almost that. It is sad. But, at the same time, how a glass of grenadine sparkles! – Mylne Farmer
- He was a glass half full kind of person and she was…what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes. – Erin McCarthy
- I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.- Ellen West – Carl R Rogers
- Somewhere Chesterton writes–I think it is Chesterton–that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to. – Alec Wilkinson
- When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma. – John A Macdougall
- Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me.Those are the years that know-“ love’s eternity is you. – C Elizabeth
- Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream. – Ryan Lilly
- Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won’t be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How’s that strike you? – Lisa Tawn Bergren
- You can know an animal – or a person, for that matter – in an instant, really, though your understanding can go on unfolding for years. – Mark Doty
- Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, ‘We will not be dictated to,’ and went off and became stenographers. – GK Chesterton
- I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. – George RR Martin
- They gave me a thousand reasons to leave you, but I found a thousand and one reasons to be with you. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- She carried a thousand lights inside her heart, and a thousand lights carried her. – Vatsal Surti
- A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows – Mati Klarwein
- It’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it’s also true that a word is worth a thousand pictures. – Marty Johncox
- If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures. – JEB Spredemann
- They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but it is up to the author to write those thousand words. -“ Richard Petracca – Richard Petracca
- We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives. – Elizabeth Kim
- A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone’s voice. – Paul Fleischman
- A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures… – J Buchanan
- Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men,You’re the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one – yourself. – Anonymous
- A thousand moments lost because you took them for granted, just because you expected a thousand more. – Saleem Sharma
- Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away. – Daniel Bliss
- Our life contains a thousand springs,And dies if one be gone.Strange that a harp of thousand stringsShould keep in tune so long. – William Billings
- They say a picture’s worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand. – Luke Taylor