Thousand Quotes

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, 'That's it.'

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.

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

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

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.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.