Thousand Quotes - Page 33

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Giving Up

  "The Business of Baseball". p. 61. Book by Albert Theodore Powers, 2003.

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• Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Two, Obamacare

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

  Carl Sandburg

  Years, People, Strange

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.21, University of Illinois Press

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• The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

  George Santayana

  Shells

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

  Stacy Schiff

  Years, Voice, Finals

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• It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

  Olive Schreiner

  Peace, War, Noble

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• Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

  Richard Simmons

  Dog, Islands, Ice Cream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Two, Literature, Might

  "The New York Times", June 30, 1985.

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• Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Home, People, Medical

  "Democratic Sen. Stabenow On Health Care". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 4, 2010.

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• The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Peace, Journey, League

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 508), 1977.

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• I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, Girl, Twilight

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• Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Names, Church

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Inspirational, Skills, Plus

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• I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, People, Giving

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Inspiring, Lying, Writing

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.106

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• As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.

  Lewis Thomas

  Years, Covering, Earth

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Years, Printing, Century

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

  Linus Torvalds

  Giving, Consumers, Just One

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• I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

  Ville Valo

  Book, Cds, Records

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• I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

  Jim Valvano

  Cancer, Years, People

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

  Nia Vardalos

  New Year, Years, Desire

  "The List" by Nia Vardalos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2009.

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• The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

  Jules Verne

  Distance, Circles, League

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.165, Jules Verne

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• Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

  Jules Verne

  Squares, Land, Soul

  Jules Verne, George Makepeace Towle (2011). “Around the World in Eighty Days”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Hype, Deceit, Definitions

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• The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

  Horace Walpole

  Life, Learning, Secret

  "The Christian Leader", Vol. 37, Issue 7, February 17, 1934.

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