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“If you look at the current Mosul campaign against ISIL, for example the few thousand troops that we have there to support that effort allows the Iraqi military to move forward in an effective way.”

Ifs Way Looks Moving Effort Support Military Example Thousand Currents Campaigns Moving Forward Troops Isil

Author:Barack Obama

“I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.”

Thinking Men Made Age Beautiful Gone Objects Ought Thousand Stones Skins Woods Bones Fabric Tribes Statues Ivory Fetish Prehistoric Stone Age Beautiful Objects Prehistoric Man African Tribes

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I don't think that God is a person, a great big person in the sky. I think that God is the essence of life that shapes and forms itself in a thousand different ways, in a million lifetimes, that can be used and focused, and directed and experienced.”

Thinking Way Persons Different Bigs Form Used Millions Sky Thousand Shapes Essence Lifetime Focused Different Ways Essence Of Life

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Do something bad a thousand times and it's no big deal. Everyone just goes, "Willie f - up again."”

Bigs Deals Thousand Big Deal

Author:Willie Nelson

“LSD was my "wonder child", we had a positive reaction from everywhere in the world. Around two thousand publications about it appeared in scientific journals and everything was fine. Then, at the beginning of the 1960s, here in the United States, LSD became a drug of abuse. In a short time, this wave of popular use swept the country and it became "drug number one". It was then used without caution and people were not prepared and informed about its deep effects. Instead of a "wonder child", LSD suddenly became my "problem child".”

“I am frightened by today's world, terrified by it. I think that comes out in the books. I'm afraid of big things. Some of these schools have three thousand kids, and even the size of the schools frightens me. Big government frightens me; so does big defense.”

Thinking World Doe Book Bigs Government Kids Today School Three Thousand Size Defense Frightened Terrified Big Things Big Government Today's World

Author:Robert Cormier

“Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning to become global. Before that the United States had been mostly a regional power - Britain was the biggest global power. After the Second World War, national security is everywhere, because we basically owned the world, so our security is threatened everywhere. Not just on our borders, but everywhere - so you have to have a thousand military bases around the world for "defense."”

“You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.”

Ifs Knows Thousand Conversation Bad Things

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.”

People Years Lasts Thousand Thousand Years Mischievous

Author:Dalai Lama

“If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.”

Ifs Looks Made Moments Our Lives Thousand Strings

Author:Anne Lamott

“Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.”

Life Years Has Beens Wisdom Growth Beauty Tree Genius Thousand Spring Thousand Years Oaks Reeds

Author:George Henry Lewes

“All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.”

Years Earth Force Military Drink Thousand Europe Army Blue Track Treasure Trials Civil War Chests Thousand Years Asia Commanders Ohio Ridges

Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.”

Humans Children Running House Creative Thousand Normal Details Occupation Feeding Human Relationships Contemplative Creative Life Contemplative Life

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.”

Life Is Song Thousand Life Is So Short

Book:Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

Source: Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

“I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.”

Thinking Records Comedy Thousand Band Velvet Velvet Underground

Author:Courtney Love

“Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.”

Persons Literature Example Discipline Circumstances Thousand Shapes Impulse

Author:James Russell Lowell

“I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.”

Stage Thousand Technique Screens

Author:Bela Lugosi

“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.”

Men God Certain Faith Grace Thousand Stakes Daring Confidence In God God's Grace Burning At The Stake

Author:Martin Luther

“I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.”

Humor Funny Three Fashion Thousand Humorous Shoes Witty Pairs Sixty High Heels Pair Of Shoes Loafers If The Shoe Fits Comfortable Shoes Designer Shoes

Author:Imelda Marcos

“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”

Love Art Stars Beauty Air Thousand Romantic Evening Your Beautiful Faustus Cute Romantic

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)

“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?”

Faces Thousand Ships Towers Faustus Helen Of Troy

Author:Christopher Marlowe

“I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.”

Heart Song Thousand Simplicity Poetic

Author:Bruno Mars

“If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.”

“I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.”

Thinking Funny Marriage Wife Thousand Why Not Fifth Solomon Synonym

Author:John Barrymore

“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.”

Years Littles Government Political Three Politics Liberty Four Society Thousand Understood Years Ago Thousand Years Standstill

Author:John Adams

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.”

“These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.”

Soul Seems Thousand Genuine Comparison Vague Misunderstood Ambiguous

Author:Felix Mendelssohn

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”

“My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.”

Years Made Five Mom Dad Thousand Dollars My Dad My Mom Thirty Fifteen Clerks

Author:Michael Moore

“We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.”

People Moving Games Thousand Rewards China Selling Making Money Shells Mortgage Dividing

Author:Michael Moore

“I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.”

Ifs Years Memories Thousand Thousand Years Old Memories

Book:The Flowers of Evil

Source: The Flowers of Evil

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.”

Giving Thousand Giving Up Constant Get Better Ups & Downs Roller Coaster Coasters Giving Up Is Not An Option

Author:Aimee Mullins

“Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.”

Eye Form Thousand Host

Author:Guru Nanak

“My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Samaria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.”

Years Firsts Names Known Land Son Thousand Years Ago Israel Hills Thousand Years Jacob

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

“The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.”

Years Technology Thousand Draws Machines Presses Conclusion Thousand Years Premises Railway Telegraph

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.”

Death Dies Honor Thousand Ten Wounds Honour Honorable Honored

Author:Joseph Addison

“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”

Birth Thousand Accidents Composer Composing Music

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.”

Men Reason Enough Play Causes Sports Thousand Balls Sufficient Motivational Sports Imperfect Hitting Weary Wretched Weariness Frivolous Billiards

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.”

Giving Atheism Thousand Pages Positive Atheism Thirty Restaurants Metaphysics Rationality Menus

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.”

Heart May Light Happiness Thousand Losing Mirrors Originals Strikes Inner Peace Rays Particles Bosoms Brightness Kindred Sunbeams

Author:Jane Porter

“In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.”

People Thinking Writing Wells Long Important Ideas Remember Novel Five Mines Thousand Down And Seats Sixty Seriousness

Author:Terry Pratchett

“You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. 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.”

“The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.”

Use Success Father Failure Thousand Phrases Congratulations Orphan

Author:Alan Price

“Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.”

Thinking Done Play Wish My Own Creativity Thousand Ten Drummer Playing Drums

Author:Buddy Rich

“Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.”

Reason Thousand Hundred Appreciate Justify Dislike

Book:Clarissa Harlowe V: Samuel Richardson Collections

Source: Clarissa Harlowe V: Samuel Richardson Collections

“Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.”

Firsts May States Happens Thousand And Love Affection Mutual Shocking Assertion Tolerable

Book:Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life

Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life

“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”

Love Kind Thousand True Love Imitation Famous Love Kinds Of Love Cute Love Love Hurt

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Humor Funny Five Comedy Cost Thousand Gun Dollars Innocent Innocence Bullets Gun Control Bystanders Dodging Bullets

Author:Chris Rock

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