Best thousand & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.”

Years Firsts Country Government Spirit Four Changed Thousand Succeed Series Injustice Thousand Years Conquest

Author:Ezra Stiles

“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.”

Men Firsts Whole Facts America Lying History Creation Thousand Forests Britain Rome Egypt Greece Encyclopedia Acorns Greece And Rome

Book:Twelve Essays

Source: Twelve Essays

“A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.”

World Firsts Steps Journey Thousand Library First Steps Portal

Author:Orson Scott Card

“To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.”

Way Firsts Use Body Steps Journey Feet Thousand Travel Miles Lifts Description First Steps Scenery Thousand Miles Where You Stand Journey Of A Thousand Miles

Book:Blossoms of Friendship

Source: Blossoms of Friendship

“A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.”

Firsts Dying Months Thousand Six Goodbye Death And Dying Six Months Bereavement After Death

Author:Allan Gregg

“In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.”

Firsts Hard Age Trouble Conditions Information Thousand Accounts Financial Currents Investors Accurate Reserves Veils Monetary Fleeing Accurate Information

Author:Lawrence Summers

“I know of a few multimillionaires who started trading with inherited wealth. In each case, they lost it all because they didn't feel the pain when they were losing. In those formative first few years of trading, they felt they could afford to lose. You're much better off going into the market on a shoestring, feeling that you can't afford to lose. I'd rather bet on somebody starting out with a few thousand dollars than on somebody who came in with millions.”

Knows Feels Years Firsts Feelings Pain Lost Felt Loses Wealth Millions Cases Thousand Losing Dollars Starting Trading Better Off Starting Out Inherited Wealth

Author:William Eckhardt

“And personally I will say that Amy Poehler deserves about a thousand trophies and so one is a good start, and I'm hoping this is the first of a thousand. That's my personal hope.”

Firsts Thousand Deserve Trophies Amy

Author:Michael Schur

“The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.”

Firsts Used Lying Simple Air Changed Truth Is Thousand Edges Complicated Fabric Wraps Simple Truths Lies Truth Quills Micah

Book:Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.”

Years Firsts Humans Moments Body Human Beings Technology Thousand Hundred First Time Evolve Thousand Years Inseparable

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.”

Source: The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt

“The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.”

“War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be changed; war is not in our genes.”

Years Firsts Has Beens War Changed Thousand Years Ago Innovation Nine Civilized Genes Thousand Years Eleven Civilized Society Prehistory

Author:Gwynne Dyer

“The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.”

“The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God.”

Way Firsts Two Blood Atheism Thousand Judgment Horse Jew Positive Atheism Miles Knees Temples Marvelous Jordan Ecstatic Crusades Solomon Thousand Miles

Author:Herbert J. Muller

“The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.”

Source: The Stones of Venice

“For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.”

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“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.”

Firsts Thousand Nine Resistance Instance Concentration Camps Concentration Camp Norwegians Himmler

Author:Walter Schellenberg

“I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”

Firsts Two Names Education Thousand Members University Faculty Telephones Boston Harvard Harvard University Faculty Members

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

“... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.”

Men Firsts Heard Color Thousand Standards Ideals Miles Uplifting Desert Aspiration Get Away Destination Speakers Traveled Acquaintance Thousand Miles Chameleon Scholarly

Book:The Rest of My Life

Source: The Rest of My Life

“Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago.”

“Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Social Thousand Messages Clothes Solutions Evidence Years Ago Direct Twenties Clothings Thousand Years Conveying

Author:E. J. W. Barber

“At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.”

Firsts Has Beens Reason Age Law Simple Century Thousand Connections All Time Destroying Despotism

Author:Marquis de Sade

“I've thought about it more than a thousand times. It was a thousand times worse, so I suppressed it, I suppressed it to death. The moment that I heard that Meahri was leaving, I thought the world was ending because at that moment, I was full of regret. I was avoiding, not thinking, and pretending it wasn't what my heart was hoping for earlier. I'm sorry, because I've made Meahri cry so many times. I'll do well. I'll take care of her forever. Tae-sang, this is my first and last request of you. Just this once, forgive me.”

“Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several million were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven.”

Source: Principles of Nature Or A Developement of the Moral Causes of Hapiness and Misery Among the Human Species

“Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.”

Thinking Firsts Book Humor Funny Brain Doors Drug Thousand Ten Perception Critics Melting Huxley Doors Of Perception

Author:Bill Bailey

“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.”

Love Giving Firsts Heart Done Millions Thousand Kissing Hundred Give Me Twenties Add Score Valentine's Day Kiss Me First Kiss Romantic Kiss Kissing Funny Just Kiss Me

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.”

People Firsts Christian Three Church Thousand Glad Peter Primitive Sermons Converting Pentecost Tidings St Peter

Author:John Strachan

“If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.”

“If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?”

Ifs Years Firsts Would Be Thousand Awakening Thousand Years Proven Hypothesis Riemann

Author:David Hilbert

“I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.”

Firsts Lasts Death Gone Dying Youth Hair Thousand Died Graves Teeth Dust Odd

Author:Lord Byron

“Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.”

Should Firsts Mean Asks Prayer Answers Thousand Thirds Overcoming Temptation Ask Me Repeats

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.”

People Ifs Firsts Looks Earth Huge Praying Thousand First Time Standing Miles Look Up Thousand Miles Donuts Kneeling Groveling

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.”

Men Firsts Modern Thousand Ten Average Quitting Electric Lamps Average Man

Author:Pete Seeger

“You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a commandment against cannibalism was no longer necessary. And, second, it's like pissing on a boulder. For the first few thousand years, you don't see any effect. But after that, you start to see a definite impact.”

Men Years Firsts Long Views Effects Thousand Impact Commandments Thousand Years Definite Moses Cannibalism Boulders Sinai

Author:I. F. Stone

“The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.”

“The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.”

“Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.”

Firsts Thousand Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Author:Wim Wenders

“I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go over those numbers again, they're a little baffling at first: Iraq: 150,000, USA: 79. Does that mean we could have won with only 80 guys there? Just one guy in a ticker-tape parade, "I did it! Hey!"”

Firsts Mean Littles Doe Guy Numbers Thousand Hundred Iraq Nine Hey Usa Just One Fifty Tape Seventies Parades Casualties Discrepancies

Author:Bill Hicks

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.”

Firsts Children Week Thousand Ten China Opening Shirts Parks Theme T Shirt Theme Parks Opening Day

Author:Conan O'Brien

“There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.”

Firsts Thousand Hundred First Time

Author:Christian Morgenstern

“'m constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"”

“The brutality of the pace. This was my third presidential campaign and it was a thousand times faster paced than my first one in 2004. The news cycle is constant and there has been an explosion in the number of news outlets covering them. As as result we're witnessing news and entertainment melding together to create what I'd describe as the "American Idolization" of campaigns and politics.”

Firsts Has Beens Together Results Numbers Thousand News Thirds Constant Entertainment Campaigns Faster Presidential Cycles Pace Outlets Explosions Covering Brutality Presidential Campaign

Author:Kevin Madden

“One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.”

Firsts States Opportunity My Own United United States Missing Tvs Goes On Thousand Beats Hundred Raises Dollars Democratic Bridges Senate

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.”

Knows Firsts Heart Done Study Students Thousand Ten Doctors Males Medical Agendas Nancy Heart Attack Protocol Aspirin Women's Health

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an esoteric frog lecture on their first date? If that isn't synchronicity, it's something equally as weird.”

Ifs Firsts Two Guy Girl Fiction Thousand Stranger Miles Odds Lectures Frogs Synchronicity Esoteric Thousand Miles First Date Miles Apart

Author:Tom Robbins

“At the 2012 Olympic Trials, I wanted to make a second Olympic team. I fell face first, and in a blink of an eye, my dreams of competing in a second Olympics were over. Even so, I got up, finished my routine, and saw twenty thousand people cheering. It was my first standing ovation.”

People Firsts Dream Eye Wanted Faces Saws Team Thousand Standing Twenties Finished Trials Routine Cheer Olympics Competing Blink Blink Of An Eye Ovation

Author:Nastia Liukin

“First of all, we're not Rust Belt. I mean, that's an old term. We do have manufacturing. We have a half-a-billion-dollar investment from a Chinese individual, which brings a couple thousand jobs in Dayton.”

Firsts Mean Jobs Individual Term Half Couple Thousand Dollars Investment Billions Chinese Belts Manufacturing Rust

Author:John Kasich

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