Quotes About Thousand

Another said , I don't ask six months, I don't ask two. In less than two weeks we'll meet the government face to face. With twenty-five thousand men we can make our stand.

It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.

He did not understand—until it was too late—what one university president called the reality of tenured faculty: "A thousand points of no.

for though the quiet of deep solitude reigned in that vast and nearly boundless forest, nature was speaking with her thousand tongues in the eloquent language of night in a wilderness. The air sighed through ten thousand trees, the water ripped, and at places even roared along the shores; and now and then was heard the creaking of a branch or a trunk, as it rubbed against some object similar to itself, under the vibrations of a nicely balanced body.

A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

Ye mariners of England,That guard our native seas;Whose flag has braved, a thousand years,The battle and the breeze!

We've been through all this a thousand times. I won't subject myself to the indignities of pregnancy. I won't swish crap-laden diapers around in a toilet bowl ten times a day. Let someone else populate the earth. I'm not about to split off my soul, like some damned amoeba.

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.

cape which we discovered before this spit is called the Cape of the [Eleven Thousand] Virgins

we found by miracle a strait which we called the Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins.

fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve, eighteen thousand acres of rugged wilderness.

If you have to convince someone that you are their soulmate then you didn't realize the thousand other guys applying for the job.

In that mycoidal phantom blooming in the dawn like an evil lotus and in the melting of solids not heretofore known to do so stood a truth that would silence poetry for a thousand years.

His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.

Spieler klatschte in die Hände und Sechzehn zersprang in tausend Scherben.

Make the loan for thirty thousand dollars," I said.

the mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Cooking practice can be expensive and impractical. If you have the time, you can practice your tennis serve a thousand times a day for a few dollars. Making a thousand omelets a day? That's a different story.

For a thousand years," Langdon continued, "legends of this secret have been passed on. The entire collection of documents, its power, and the secret it reveals have become known by a single name—Sangreal.

It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.