Thousand Quotations | Page 7

There's a thousand different forms of confusion, but almost everyone's confused.

There's an old Chinese proverb that says the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. If a woman can make simple pledges to change the small things, she's well on her way to leading a fuller, healthier life.

At last count we exceeded forty thousand and we know we are still selling tickets.

A Best Picture nomination and win will mean several hundred thousand additional DVD sales and higher TV and foreign rights.

A big part of it was at the end, the verdict -- no emotion, no anything. That spoke a thousand words,

The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources of energy - for example black holes, or even the neighbourhoods of large stars, which routinely boil off the energy of ten thousand suns. These are the destinations they may seek.

It's just a few thousand bags of food, hopefully, most of which we are getting back in the recall. The Oct. 11 production day was the hot load that is responsible for the majority of deaths in my opinion.

It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.

It was something I had done a thousand times,

It was special for me-a lot of for my fan club there, more than a thousand people. It's very important for me to win this race, especially in Austria.

It's a credit to her. She's a scorer, and she's done it a lot of different ways. I hope she scores a thousand more the next two years.

It's a chance to get a little accustomed to the surroundings, but it will be different with several thousand people in here on Friday afternoon. Part of it, though, is getting a little bit of the excitement of being here out of the way, from when we walk in here for the first time.

It's a big showroom at MGM. It will bring in a few thousand people because it's free. When times are good you take your money and when they are bad you give it back.

It is our job to make sure this happens with the thousand or so companies who represent the industry within the London and East of England area and we are very happy to be starting this process with Lotus.

It is quite possible that Wal-Mart could, at some point, follow a similar course by simply opening a thousand bank branches in its stores and then challenging Congress to close them down. We think Wal-Mart will do this and that Congress will back down.

It's a great feeling (that) my mom knew where I was one thousand nights. When you look at this league, at how many guys get jobs and lose jobs, you feel pretty lucky.

It is true that rich people can spend more money than middle class people, but there's this upper limit on what we can spend. I drive a very nice car, but it's only one car. I don't own a thousand, even though I earn a thousand times the median wage. I have a few jackets, not a few thousand.

It's not science fiction. The fact is that the world will exist in 100 years, 300 years and one thousand years from now...This makes good sense.

For me, a big part of it was at the end, the verdict -- no emotion, no anything. That spoke a thousand words, ... I heard enough from him.

Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo. Red cataracts of France to-day Awake, three thousand miles away, An echo of Niagara The cataract of Niagara.

Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

It's the same story we've seen a thousand times before: A small group of big power plant owners gnashing their teeth because they have a vested financial stake in business as usual. It's a handful of special interests saying that progress is a bad thing. Well, progress is a good thing for the Northeast economy and the people whose jobs depend on it.

It's the right thing to do &#151 we had corporate contributions, employee contributions, we donated a couple of thousand boxes, so when they called and asked for help it was an easy decision. I was thrilled that they asked us.

It's the ultimate viewer-driven pay-per-view product. You only need a few thousand people to make it work.

It's the toughest loss by a thousand times. It's a very good season and I'm so proud of everybody but that hurts more than anything else I've been a part of.

It's only a couple of thousand dollars for the whole group,

It's a lot of guys we had that were our top officials that just went away because they could make 6, 7, 800 dollars more going to a different league. Our league's gotten so much better. There's so much at stake. You don't want to, for a few extra thousand dollars, not do what's best for your league.

It's a lot easier to stick if you're one of those first three picks, because they're going to give them a lot more time to develop than they will that free-agent guy they only paid a couple thousand dollars, ... You gotta come in and do something to make them look at you and say, 'Well, maybe there's something in that guy that we can use.'

It's an incredibly difficult situation ... So I'm glad that I went, because we probably saw a couple thousand children in the week I was there -- and if I was able to help even one of them, the trip was worth it.

It's going to be a battle. New Mexico is very good and athletic. I think it will be a great game. If we can beat them it will be a big edge for us because we would be up two games on them in the conference. Hopefully we can get four to five thousand fans here.

It's going to be adjusted next year. Knowing that they didn't have 12, 13, 14 thousand dollars sitting in a basket somewhere ... this year it's coming out of my bill. I'm in effect paying for it this year.

It's unbelievable, they have anywhere from 30-40 thousand people in a half square mile.

The night has a thousand eyes,And the day but one;Yet the light of the bright world dies,With the dying sun.

The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun.

Then I turned around and went the other direction and hit from 60. It's a big difference. Mile High Stadium (in Denver) is 5,200 feet. This is an extra couple thousand feet. Kickers should have a good day.

Then I turned around and went the other direction and hit from 60, ... It's a big difference. Mile High Stadium (in Denver) is 5,200 feet. This is an extra couple thousand feet. Kickers should have a good day.

Eighty thousand bucks is a fortune for this food bank.

Eight thousand sick and dead birds have been tested, fortunately all negative.

Egyptians obviously went to sea frequently during this time, despite the fact that it was a huge undertaking. It required several thousand people trekking supplies across the desert.

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say: / Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

The big impact is this is really the only hybrid system that makes sense economically. We can make a hybrid system that is more effective than electric hybrids for a few hundred dollars versus several thousand dollars.

The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason.

The average adult goose is over 7 years old. It has been hunted for six months a year its whole life, so it has seen decoy spread every day for seven years. They pretty well understand ... they don't go into decoys very easy. They have had a thousand days where they have flown out from their roost and been exposed to decoy spreads. We have changed the goose. This is a more wary goose than we had 10 years ago.

The agenda is one line, but there are one thousand matters to discuss (on the ceasefire).

Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?

It's controversial as to whether people should ever have built there in the first place. But here's the critical thing about sea level: We're at a time when sea level is higher than it's been. For the past couple of thousand years, sea level was stable, and now it's increasing. So what's the problem?

It's comfort zone to know that when you make a play, you'll have 50 to 60 thousand people screaming

It's death by a thousand cuts at the moment.

It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity.

It's a market that has been really difficult for us to get our arms around. We have no real way to track the number of copies of Linux that are installed. If a person downloads a copy from site, they could wind up installing Linux on one machine or a thousand machines. What we can keep track of is the money generated by commercial shipments.

It's great to support us and all that, but $1-million a year is a heck of a support. Children's Hospital has been very supportive and it's not on the board radar to close us down right now. But if we lose a couple hundred thousand dollars more in funding, I don't know if they can support us any more. It's getting to the straw that breaks the camel's back.

It's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait table six days a week.

It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term that has conferred social respect on our gender for over a thousand years - that has women up in arms.

Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars

It was a 4-2 road trip I was looking at it. I forgot all about it. One thousand wins means you've been around a while and you've had a few good teams.

It takes five years to have a sellable crop. Two thousand six is the magic year.

I want there to be more jobs, and I will not commit to a million jobs because we have already created 150 thousand new jobs this past year.

It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Humans learned how to use fire to cook 100, 000 years after they discovered how to make it. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story

They literally throw a bucket overboard and bring it back up and take that water, with probably several thousand species of microbes, and they shotgun-sequence it and reconstruct what all the species were.

This is a very major earthquake but it's really aggravated a thousand times by the topography. An earthquake is bad anywhere, in the Himalayas it becomes much worse,

ANYWAY, by the time you read this sentence, the song I am referring to will be ten thousand years old.

That's a thousand times better than any pep rally we've had since I've been here. My sophomore year, they booed us. No lie.

Every week, more than a thousand patients are killed in American hospitals as a result of negligence.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with wondering if you turned off the iron.

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

the fast lane for Canada-U.S. trade. Twenty-five percent of our two-way trade, or 120 billion U.S. dollars, travels the bridge; seven thousand trucks cross it every day. The value of the trade that crosses this bridge exceeds all of U.S. trade with Japan.

The campaign was further extended through spring of 2005, because the Meyer Sports and Wellness Center cost was approximately six hundred thousand dollars more than originally budgeted.

I'm going to be in the gym (today) shooting a thousand (free throws). That's the one thing I'm really mad about, the free throw that I missed.

I'm not going to get down on myself if I have a bad day or two in early March, or if I can't get on the field for a couple days in a row in early March because something happens. It's a trial process that I have to come back. I've said it a thousand times, but my point is April 3rd is my date.

I joined an Internet community of Victorian scholars, which meant that if I posted a question about 1875's lavender harvest, more than a thousand experts would ponder it.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true -- hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year.

I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.

In his company, I am grieved to the soul by a thousand tender recollections.

In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

In college - while figuring the things out that most people do in college - I had no game. No confidence. I had Birkenstocks. And overalls. A budding romance novel addiction. But no cool. No poise. I was trying on a thousand different personalities, but a lot of them were formed by the perceptions of others.

In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.

In any given year more than a thousand people will be maimed by toilet bowl cleaning products or killed by cattle. Less than a dozen will be attacked by a great white shark.

I'm not a good enough actor anymore to be able to stand up here and make you believe that I haven't imagined this moment in my mind over the years and played it out about a thousand times. I'm very grateful for this. I'm very grateful for an entire lifetime spent involved in this creative process.

I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

I knew I could do it. I've done it a thousand times in practice.

I'm looking forward to that. I played many years in County Stadium where we had six or eight thousand in a 60,000-seat stadium. It helps. It helps your energy level. It's a long season. It's a grind, and that energy and that excitement can only help you stay focused and stay alert.

I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

I had millions of dollars, all of the material things that anybody could want, but I just couldn't find happiness. And I would have gave it all back, if I could go back in time and sign that thirty thousand dollar contract with Def Jam, just to have my credibility and to not be the butt end of a lot of jokes.

I'm very proud of the work Detective Burnett did, ... He went out of his way to chase down several leads. As a result, several thousand dollars worth of items will be returned to their rightful owners.

I'm batting a thousand in the big leagues. I never thought that day would come. It kind of stung a little bit. I got it off the end of the bat, but I'll take that.

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training?

If, then, women were properly fitted by instruction, they would be likely to teach children better than the other sex; they could afford to do it cheaper; and those men who would otherwise be engaged in this employment might be at liberty to add to the wealth of the nation, by any of those thousand occupations from which women are necessarily debarred.

If she had not been female and not been the president's friend, she would not have one chance in a thousand of being nominated to that court,

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?

If you get a thousand calls in one day, how can you expect to be able to answer them all?

If you look at men's roles for the last thousand years, the desire is fundamental. We want to take care of, provide for, and be of service to... women.

In the early '80s, when natural gas traded below $2 (per thousand cubic feet), it was a big negative to import liquefied natural gas. But at the prices we've seen, everyone is paying attention.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

In October 1633 my first wife died, and left me whatever was hers: it was considerable, very near to the value of one thousand pounds.

I know I've said this a thousand times, but it was only a couple of pickup games,

I heard so many great things about him before I got here. To be able to experience it firsthand, it's a thousand times better than I could have ever expected.

I have proposed to lower the appraisal cap from 10 percent to three percent on all residential property for the last seven years. We cannot increase a person's property tax every year at three times the rate of inflation. People cannot keep up under our current appraisal system. In just about 20 years, the average home in Texas will be valued at nearly $1 million with a $30 thousand a year tax bill. We must reign in state spending which is up 45 percent in five years.