Thousandths Quotes

#1. The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

Michael Johnson

#2. Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

James Gleick

#3. Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.

William James

#4. She used to think alone was the answer. Alone would stop the whispers and the taunts. Alone couldn't get her into any more trouble. Alone meant not getting hurt. Now, she'd give anything to see another human being. To hear someone call her name

Kathryn Holmes

#5. It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness,

Thomas Hardy

#6. I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#7. Where do you want to live? Do you want to live free and poor and covered in flea welts? Or enslaved, with your own clean room and a shower with hot water? Who are you, Virginia? Who are you, really?

Laura Resau

#8. One thing I hate about having you, is not having you.

Evans Biya

#9. But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.

John Abizaid

#10. Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win.

Bear Grylls

#11. I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history. So it always has a personal stamp. It always has a particular timbre. It always has a particular howl, or a moan, in that voice.

Greil Marcus

#12. Never make an important decision with your pants down.

Katie Thayne

#13. The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Gene Roddenberry

#14. Go gather by the humming sea
Some twisted, echo-harbouring shell,
And to its lips thy story tell.

W.B.Yeats

#15. I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

Marjane Satrapi

#16. Lost in this awful world, rubbing shoulders with the multitudes, I am like a tired man whose eye can't see behind him, in the deep years, anything but disillusion and bitterness, and in front of him, nothing but a storm which contains nothing new, neither learning nor pain.

Charles Baudelaire

#17. My hair is always a big topic. It is just hair.

Anne Burrell

#18. It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized.

Khem Veasna