Thousand Quotes - page 12

You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results. (Emanuel Lasker)
When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions! View quote
Peter Kropotkin
Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess” would sell even fewer. The idea with this title was to spread the book outside the competitive chess world. I'm interested in attracting readers who love chess but play only casually, and feminists interested in male dominated fields. View quote
Jennifer Shahade
For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians and Danes, whom I had released from concentration camps. View quote
Walter Schellenberg
To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary. View quote
Jerry Pournelle
There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient. View quote
Marilynne Robinson
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethleham be born And not within thyself, Thy soul will be forlorn. View quote
Angelus Silesius
What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand? View quote
Horace
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. View quote
Louis Nizer
Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions. View quote
Michael Parenti
I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation. (Dave Barry)
There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to begin four hundred years of wars, and then several thousand pages devoted to the routes, battles and other events which make up the "history" of the Crusades. View quote
Lloyd deMause
A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. View quote
William Shakespeare
Forty thousand brothersCould not, with all their quantity of love,Make up my sum. View quote
William Shakespeare
Ay, sir to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. View quote
William Shakespeare
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
From the walls of Baidi high in the colored dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away. View quote
Li Bai
I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that. View quote
Jay Gould
I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War. ... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail. View quote
Jean-Marie Le Pen
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. View quote
Aleksandr Pushkin
The Bible has noble poetry in it and some clever fables and some blood-drenched history and a wealth of obscenity and upwards of a thousand lies. (Mark Twain)
If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. View quote
Mark Twain
Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times. View quote
Mark Twain
In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed. View quote
Barack Obama
In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls. View quote
Fritz Sauckel