Thousand Quotes

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

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

What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

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.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.