Thousand Quotes - Page 18

• My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.

  Lawrence Block

  Mother, Easter, Father

  Lawrence Block (2011). “Out On The Cutting Edge”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick.

  Colin Hanks

  Mean, Answers, Knows

  "Colin Hanks and John Stalberg Talk HIGH SCHOOL, Stoner Comedies, Directing and Comparing Filmmaking to Parenthood". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 29, 2012.

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• If Senator Rubio were doing his job and in Congress more, he might know that the program 'phone records of a potential terrorist cause' continues. It's been ongoing for the last six months. So the Paris tragedy, this tragedy happened while we were still doing bulk collection, all bulk collection. Also in France, they have a program a thousand-fold more invasive, collecting all of the data of all of the French.

  Rand Paul

  Jobs, Data, Paris

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2015.

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• It's the same challenge as with any other character, adults or not. You want to take time with the kids. You want to tell them in the audition that they have time to exchange ideas. I'm there. It's not someone else who does the audition, but I don't want to audition a thousand children.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Children, Character, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.

  John Muir

  Blessing, Calling, Wilderness

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.1698, e-artnow

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• See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Practice, Training, Temper

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• Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Men, Years, Tomorrow

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

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• Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.

  Angelus Silesius

  Christ, Vain, Born

  "Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters". Book edited by Frederick Franck, 2005.

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• If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.

  Max Lucado

  Choices, Finals, Steps

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• Life is a series of a thousand tiny miracles.

  Mike Greenberg

  Miracle, Tiny, Life Is

  Mike Greenberg (2006). “Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad”, p.75, Villard

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• I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Office, Way, Penance

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.9

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• The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only for a thousand or so people at a time. This gives them the opportunity to perform to millions of people.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Artist, Opportunity, Years

  "Tonys Q&A: Neil Patrick Harris on His Fourth Turn Hosting Broadway's Big Night". Interview with David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 5, 2013.

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• There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

  Orson Welles

  Play, Way, Classic

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• Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

  Bill Gates

  Dollars, Saving, Save A Life

  "Amanpour" with Hala Gorani, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2014.

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• As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.

  Laozi

  Dream, Moving, Long

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• The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Growing Up, Heart, Opportunity

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• That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.

  Marcel Proust

  Suicide, Morning, Reading

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• While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.

  Henry Rollins

  Father, Believe, Civilization

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• If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, School, Kids

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• If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

  Mark Twain

  Grateful, Sleep, Eye

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• Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people - but very few photographers can make their prints not only reproductions of the people taken, but a comment upon them - or more, a comment upon their lives - or more still, a comment upon the social order that creates these lives.

  Langston Hughes

  Taken, Order, Cities

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.141, University of Missouri Press

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• The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar study to see if Alaskan trees are polluting Oregon forests. You can tell Republicans are in power. Pollution? It's those damn trees.

  Jay Leno

  Oregon, Agency, Tree

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• If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would it then have been morally right to have handed Hitler control of one of the most terrible weapons man has ever made? Would not that have been the one way to ensure that the thousand year Reich became exactly that? Would not unilateralism have given to Hitler the world domination he sought?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, Years, Allies

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• While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Eight, Iron

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• King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Kings, Wife, Tonight

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