Quotes About Thousands

#1. Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.

Steve Allen

#2. If we could ever find that moment, maybe thousands of years from
now, where all the musics of the worlds would be communicating with each other, there would be no more wars, there would be peace.

Gunther Schuller

#3. Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say: Arise, Lord! Let Your enemies be scattered, and those who hate You flee from Your presence. v 36 When it came to rest, he would say: Return, Lord, to the countless thousands of Israel. w

Anonymous

#4. There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.

Lance Armstrong

#5. Fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased.

Arthur C. Clarke

#6. I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.

Colin Powell

#7. We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.

Greg Anderson

#8. I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.

Henry Rollins

#9. Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.

Frances Beinecke

#10. There is a limitation on debate, which is unlike other bills, for 20 hours, but there is no limitation on amendments. In other words, Republicans if they wanted to, and I suspect they do, could offer literally thousands of amendments and keep Senate in session for weeks and months.

Rick Santorum

#11. The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

Bill Gates

#12. It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

Henry Louis Gates

#13. Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years.

Dean Koontz

#14. Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

Robert Burns

#15. Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.

Mitt Romney

#16. Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.

Richard Brautigan

#17. The country listened to thousands of speeches and read thousands of newspaper columns raking over every argument for and against imperialism and every aspect of the war in the Philippines.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#18. Why do I feel like my heart is ripping in thousands of pieces, taking with it every shred of soul that I still have?

Eva Scoutt

#19. I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

Beth Moore

#20. Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

Pierre De Ronsard

#21. The teacher will be moving through thousands of states of mind and sometimes beyond mind. While you are with the teacher, be sensitive to that. Without being flaky and devotional, develop respect for the teacher, just as the teacher respects you.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

Agnes Repplier

#23. What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length and breadth of America. Energetic people who build against pains and uncertainties, as weaker ones merely hope against them.

Saul Bellow

#24. The harmonious man, it needs to be said, hardly exists at all; out of many tens, even hundreds of thousands perhaps one or two at most are encountered, and even then in rather feeble versions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#25. Network marketing itself is always one-on-one. It's also called relationship marketing. You can't recruit en masse through thousands of e-mails.

Brian Tracy

#26. Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.

Dustin Hoffman

#27. There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

Silvio Scaglia

#28. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

Hermann Hesse

#29. Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.

Ashraf Ghani

#30. Fern showed him an organizational plan that had the name Magnum Opus, Incorporated. It was a marvelous engine for doing violence to the spirit of thousands of laws without actually running afoul of so much as a city ordinance.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#31. Water gushing out of thousands of springs at different places cannot move the wheels of a big engine to carry out very heavy tasks. But the channeled flow of the same water in the bed of a stream will, however, be irresistible and can become a source of tremendous energy.

Gulzarilal Nanda

#32. A man sits in some museum somewhere and writes a harmless book about political economy and suddenly thousands of people who haven't even read it are dying because the ones who did haven't got the joke.

Terry Pratchett

#33. Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

Pliny The Elder

#34. Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Robert Plant

#35. Firms are guided by long-held organizational habits, patterns that often emerge from thousands of employees' independent decisions.6.16

Charles Duhigg

#36. If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets, and historians, this will mean nothing and we must believe their words rather than our own eyes?

Galileo Galilei

#37. The library was magical because every time I walked through the door, there were literally thousands of voices ready and willing to have a conversation with me. I walked through the door, stared at all those stacks and bindings, and whispered, Tell me a story.

Charles Martin

#38. 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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#39. For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.

Alberto Manguel

#40. They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

Pablo Picasso

#41. Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

Jonas Mekas

#42. I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix a problem in their community. I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to dig wells in Africa. I've seen young people pass laws, largely impacting their communities. They do have the power to change the world.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#43. We must learn to love ourselves less and the earth more. This will not be an easy task for we live in the age of nonsense. Bombarded with thousands of messages each day that proclaim how to be loved instead of how to be loving, we have learned to love objects instead of processes.

Steve Van Matre

#44. Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

Boyd K. Packer

#45. What good I thought I could do, all alone, against thousands of years of mistrust and the power of a Demonlord, I cannot now imagine: but such are the dreams of youth, too gloriously stupid to realise what cannot be done.
And without those dreams, how should we ever accomplish the impossible?

Elizabeth Kerner

#46. Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal.

Grace Napolitano

#47. Sitting in front of a keyboard and a screen is work. Thousands of offices operate on this very principle.

Terry Pratchett

#48. It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.

Anne Rice

#49. Is it dead?' said Gurder.
'It can't die! It's existed for thousands of years!'
Gurder shook his head. 'Sounds like a good reason for dying,' he said.

Terry Pratchett

#50. It wasn't a question. It had never been an option. It was something set into motion the day the universe was created, and thousands of years later, there we were. We'd found each other. I was hers, she was mine, we were each other's.

Nicole Williams

#51. When you see someone's aura, it is an outer reflection of the subtle physical body. It is about the same shape as the physical body, although it can become thousands of things.

Frederick Lenz

#52. Though it's thousands of miles away
Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today
Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs
Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs

Kanye West

#53. But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven.

Lauren Willig

#54. The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty stories have no place in the Christian life. Thousands of people are engaging in immorality by the way they talk. Keep your talk pure. Ask God to purify your tongue.

Billy Graham

#55. I can't help thousands, I can help only the one who stands before me.

Mother Teresa

#56. On the streets of Moscow, looking into thousands of faces, I was reminded once again that it's not people who make war, but governments - and people deserve governments that fight for peace in the nuclear age.

Ronald Reagan

#57. Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.

Ben Shapiro

#58. Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world.

Frederick Lenz

#59. A castaway adrift on my own little island - rich and with my family along with thousands of beautiful, drunken tourists to keep me company." - excerpt from Confessions of an Internet Pornographer.

Luis Mario

#60. Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#61. As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.

Douglas Rushkoff

#62. Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.

David Quammen

#63. It just so happens that when I was, like, 19 or 20, I got a couple of auditions and got a couple parts with good people. Of the thousands of auditions where you don't get the part, I've done a couple of jobs where you do it and you're like, "Okay, this is good."

Paul Dano

#64. Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.

Joseph Kosinski

#65. Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

Benjamin Graham

#66. A hundred years ago, this City[...]'s energy production, its food and fuel, came from all over the world, often traveling thousands of miles. People used energy just to ship more energy to the places that needed it. When you're high on fossil fuel fumes, I guess almost anything can make sense.

Annalee Newitz

#67. In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.

Philippe Claudel

#68. I'm really fascinated by the parallels between quantum theory and the teachings of some of these ancient texts. So many of the things that quantum physicists are talking about today, like nonlocality and the observer effect, are things the yogis have been saying for thousands of years.

Beryl Bender Birch

#69. The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse.

Martin Gardner

#70. I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

Bill Ayers

#71. Jews have been circumcising their boys for thousands of years, and suddenly we are accused of tormenting our children.

Charlotte Knobloch

#72. What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.

Mark Abley

#73. Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

Fanny Fern

#74. Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors.

Mark Burnett

#75. The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.

Bella Pollen

#76. The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.

Dick Dale

#77. The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

George Stigler

#78. We are our stories - dozens, hundreds, thousands of them - sprayed across our memories, embedded in our identity. Calling them up for others or for ourselves or for God, can enlighten, crush, amuse, trap, or free us, depending on how we pay attention.

Emma Lou Warner Thayne

#79. The fact that 'Scrubs' is so popular in Israel is very important to me. I feel like I'm helping to cancel out the thousands of years of oppression the Jewish people have suffered.

Zach Braff

#80. For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures in the Adirondacks is a necessary corrective for those who go into the mountains unwary of the dangers.

Jim Wickwire

#81. Australian seafarers make an important contribution to national security in a country with thousands of kilometres of uninhabited coastline.

Anthony Albanese

#82. In his final years of life, Hopkins took to the lecture circuit. His talks on the "Laws of Scientific Advertising" attracted thousands of people.

Charles Duhigg

#83. You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.

J. B. Handelsman

#84. A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#85. Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That's agribusiness.

Anonymous

#86. I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.

Winston Churchill

#87. While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

Horace Greeley

#88. enough for the Republic - but the Empire is order from chaos. What we do here - and in thousands of systems just like this one - brings us closer to our ultimate goal." Sloane thought for a moment. "Perfection?" "Whatever the Emperor wants.

John Jackson Miller

#89. Remember that there are hundreds of thousands of things you can eat that are not cheese.

Dave Matthews

#90. Being without my dear one made my heart ache like it had been pierced with thousands of daggers that had been placed in ice and covered in salt.

Jillian Kleine Der Lowe

#91. in this moment, I could pretend I wasn't a savior or a Saint, that I could simply choose him, have a life, be in love. That we wouldn't have one night, we would have thousands.

Leigh Bardugo

#92. The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

Barton Gellman

#93. There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.

T.H. White

#94. I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.

Ahmed Yassin

#95. Thousands of miles,' I said. It's Rhosilli, USA. We're going to camp on a bit of rock that wobbles in the winds.

Dylan Thomas

#96. The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.

Steven Weinberg

#97. For hundreds, even thousands, of years, people completely failed to see that variations in the objective exchange-value of money could be induced by monetary factors. They tried to explain all variations of prices exclusively from the commodity side.

Ludwig Von Mises

#98. Good news. President Bush is creating thousands of new jobs. Unfortunately, all of them are at the White House.

Jay Leno

#99. We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads.

Meles Zenawi

#100. Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday.

Conan O'Brien