Top 485 Thousand Quotes

During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve.
Robyn Davidson
There exists only the present instant… a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Meister Eckhart
I grew up in Montpelier, Indiana. It’s a little town in the northeast corner of Indiana. It’s a rural community; about two thousand people, a very much hometown U.S.A. kind of thing.
Kevin A. Ford
Tell a story. You don’t have to do a thousand things in two minutes when you can do one just as good and still tell that story with your face or how you land or your reaction. That’s a lost art. Storytelling is a big part of our industry, and if given time, you can do it properly.
Goldust
When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child’s life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
Ban Ki-moon
In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
Jean de la Bruyere
We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.
William Lloyd Garrison
When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected – and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I’ve probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can’t remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
Adam Mansbach
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
Norman Cousins
There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.
Heather Matarazzo
Three thousand, it’s just a number. It’s just a game.
Rafael Palmeiro
When I was touring with Ozzy, you know, when I was with Manson, we toured with Ozzy, so many times, we did Ozzfest a thousand times, and, you know, it seems like I’m always playing with Ozzy in one way or another opening up.
John 5
When you have a thousand children that die a day from lack of drinking water, that’s a crisis and that’s a crisis that we – we collectively as the world – know how to solve that problem. We know what it takes but we haven’t had the will internationally to solve that problem.
Andrew R. Wheeler
I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.
Rebecca De Mornay
I love clothes and do sort of change my wardrobe a lot. But a thousand dollar jacket? I’d rather spend it on an experience, like traveling.
Douglas Booth
My phone bill is four thousand dollars when I’m out of the country.
Kirk Franklin
We use nearly 5 thousand different data points about you to craft and target a message. The data points are not just a representative model of you. The data points are about you, specifically.
Alexander Nix
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.
Molly O’Keefe
In a way, owing a hundred million is easier than a hundred thousand, because you stop imagining that you will ever be able to pay the money back.
Peter Sunde
Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2,000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1,000, and sell a thousand of them.
Jerry Gillies
The brain has about ten thousand parameters for every second of experience. We do not really have much experience about how systems like that work or how to make them be so good at finding structure in data.
Geoffrey Hinton
Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself.
Rod Carew
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene
Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
Rex Stout
You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you’ve got to hit the road. You’ve got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.
Maxwell Caulfield
You can make a thousand different movies about the same

You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.
Pedro Almodovar
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.
John Adams
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
Hannes Alfven
The oil patch pays good. They’re decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.
Harold Hamm
India’s sprawling subcontinent can never become a plus-size Singapore. But perhaps we can weave together an urban web that is the equivalent of a thousand Singapores.
Anand Mahindra
I remember looking to McDonald’s, and, my God, they have 13,000 restaurants in the United States. Well, we have almost a couple thousand Chipotles. What if Pizzeria Locale is a few thousand, and Shod. All of a sudden, we’re bigger than McDonald’s in the U.S. I mean, that’s not an unreasonable way to think about this.
Steve Ells
I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Duke of Wellington
I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
George H. W. Bush
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.
Niels Bohr
Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn’t entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
Pamela Sargent
I’d read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: ‘I want to be part of that.’
Edward Ruscha
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I started making videos to post just for my friends to see, and people really liked them. One day, I realized they had a couple thousand views on YouTube – I hadn’t even known other people were watching them.
Eva Gutowski
Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.
Monty Don
Over the years, I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Steve Prefontaine
Some day we’ll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.
Neil Turok
My first professional fight was a tournament with maybe one or two thousand people there.
Aleksei Oleinik
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
Ann Hood
Life lives on life – it is cruel, but it is God’s will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren’t little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
Jean Giraudoux
Now I’m standing in front of a thousand people. They’re all looking at me, but they’re sitting down. They’re surrendered, so I have to keep on proving myself to them and giving them all my passion.
Benjamin Clementine
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
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
When the START 2 treaty has been implemented – and remember it has not yet been ratified – we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.
Joseph Rotblat
On Bergessio, in 2013, I made a reckless tackle and I was so sorry. I told him I was sorry a thousand times but I couldn’t give him back the piece that I broke.
Giorgio Chiellini
I’ve been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it’s such a weird, visceral experience. It’s like, it’s disorienting.
Rodney Mullen
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
Norman Spinrad
Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn’t realize that you’d work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.
Wes Montgomery