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“Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on.”

Littles Humor Funny Girl Comedy Four Thousand Clothes Dolls Stitches Girl Love

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“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 young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.”

Years Persons Book Might Young Artist Rooms Education Four Thousand Four Years Blank Blank Canvas

Author:Robert Genn

“You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.”

People World Feels Feelings Four Stage Fronts Thousand Ill Throwing Garlands Throwing Up

Author:Judy Garland

“Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land.”

“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.”

“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.”

Children Mother Order Girl Strong Five Four Healthy Thousand Hundred Burden Relief Territory Eastern Select Tangible Housewife Strong Girl

Author:Fritz Sauckel

“Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.”

Life Two Life Is Four Thousand Ten Plague

Book:The Windup Girl

Source: The Windup Girl

“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.”

Years War Three Four Events Battle Thousand Pages Hundred Decided Instance Devoted Volume Routes Describing Participants Crusades

Book:The New Psychohistory

Source: The New Psychohistory

“A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”

Nations Education Four Advice Thousand Newspapers Journalist Hostile Giver Tutor Bayonets

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?”

Should Years Mind Has Beens Dream Lasts Teach Four Lessons Thousand Activity Judgment Operations Thousand Years Tribes Suspended Dormant

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

“If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.”

Ifs Want Years Littles Two Ideas School Law Fun Bits Can Do Four Worst College Fine Thousand Little Bit Hundred Okay Dollars Debt What You Want Four Years Worst Things Law School

Author:Tucker Max

“The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from wounds inflicted on their bodies and their spirit. Sixty-three million souls in Vietnam are still suffering from their 'victory.”

Stills War Soul Ends Body Spirit Suffering Three Millions Four Victory Thousand Hundred Wounds Vietnam Sixty Veteran Vietnam War Recovering

Book:When Heaven & Earth Change Places

Source: When Heaven & Earth Change Places

“Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.”

Cities Four Thousand Built League Buried Wet

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.”

Way Writing Years Literature Knowing Four Written Youth Thousand Curious Thousand Years Maidens Senility

Author:John Barth

“Saying goodbye to Nina is both bittersweet and beautiful. After six-plus years together, the entire cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries has reached a level of closeness that I don't think any of us ever expected. Nina is excited to spread her wings, get some rest, travel the world and also take it by storm, and we support her a thousand-fold. We will miss Nina and the four hundred characters she played, but we look forward to the insane and exciting challenge of continuing to tell stories of our Salvatore Brothers and our much-loved and gifted ensemble.”

“Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.”

Writing Trying Enough Hours Five Too Much Four Thousand Session

Author:Robert Harris

“The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.”

Two Lying Three Heaven Interest Wealth Moral Hell Four Happened Blood Events Thousand Built Noble Clever Ruins Originality New Things Fragments Impressive Fables Imposing Obscenity Good Moral

Author:Mark Twain

“If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.”

Ifs World Way Years Looks Ends Religious Millions Four This World Thousand Six Hundred Afternoon

Author:Arundhati Roy

“Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.”

“I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Years Four Thousand Years Ago Nuclear Code Thousand Years Dinosaurs Palin

Author:Matt Damon

“Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the human species may aspire in their advances towards perfection; but it may safely be presumed, that no people, unless the face of nature is changed, will relapse into their original barbarism.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“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.”

“Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.”

Knows Men Two Bigs Three Numbers Boys Four Cost Thousand Rings Ems Engagement Bucks

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Let me explain something to you. Look around here. How many people do you count? Sixty, eighty, eighty people? Greeks, Germans, Italians, French, Americans. Tourists from everywhere. Eating, drinking, talking, laughing. And from Bombay - Indians and Iranians and Afghans and Arabs and Africans. But how many of these people have real power, real destiny, real dynamic for their place, and their time, and the lives of thousand of people? I will tell you - four. Four people in this room with power, and the rest are like the rest of the people everywhere: powerless, sleepers in the dream.”

People Looks Real Dream Rooms Talking Destiny Laughing Four Thousand Eating Let Me Drinking Greek Sixty Powerless Eighty Tourists Real Power Sleepers Bombay

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“It is really appropriate to call Jesus the word because God spoke him into existence through dozens probably a hundred different people over a four thousand year period of time. The Holy Spirit took these words and impregnated Mary.”

People Years Different Spirit Jesus Existence Four Periods Holy Thousand Hundred Holy Spirit Appropriate Spokes Dozen Mary Thousand Years Different Peoples

Author:Andrew Wommack

“They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.”

Should Made Two Grows Poor Rich Four Thousand Should Have Twenties Dollars Profit Conservatism Bulls Bull Markets

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.”

People Talking Millions Four Thousand Hundred Britain Sixty Publishers

Author:John Gimlette

“I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual."”

“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

“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.”

People Years Littles Seems Dies Bits Five Four Thousand Disease Little Bit Hundred Cancer Backgrounds

Author:Jim Valvano

“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”

Inspiration Fear Power Four Thousand Historical Newspapers Hostile Freedom Of The Press Free Press Bayonets

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.”

May Two Four Thousand Isolation Allies Mathematician Abyss Conceded

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.”

Years Night Time Four Thousand Years Ago Yesterday Texas Thousand Years Crete

Book:Look Homeward, Angel

Source: Look Homeward, Angel

“I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.”

Soul Teach Four Thousand Volume Metaphysics

Author:Voltaire

“He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.”

People Men Kind Two Lasts Views Four Thousand Ten Ordinary Conclusion Towers

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster. No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.”

“... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'" "Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo. "The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..." "... is Locke ..." "... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..." "... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.”

Thinking Knows Persons Said Bigs Games Language Perfect Four Taught Brother Thousand Appreciate Hot Bounds Tricks Saving Fifty Iron Get Away Cheer Knives Our Love Bugs Spectators Locke Lamora

Author:Scott Lynch

“I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.”

Ifs Years Has Beens School Lasts Time Known Four One Day Thousand High School Surprise Winter Clock Parks Halls Four Years Thousand Years Years Of Experience

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. Nico hesitated. "I don’t play that game anymore. It’s for kids." "It’s got four thousand attack power," I coaxed. "Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first." I smiled. "Maybe it’s okay to still be a kid once in a while.”

Ifs Firsts Littles Stills Play Kids Lasts Games Five Four Thousand Okay Winter Opponents Camps Abandoned Statues Hades

Author:Rick Riordan

“If they can’t survive alone for four days once a year, they deserve to die. (Acheron) That’s harsh, for you. (Dante) Harsh? Tell you what, you take my phone and skim through the three thousand phone calls I get every day and night and see how harsh I am. I truly hate modern technology and phones in particular. I haven’t had a full four hours of sleep in over fifty years. ‘Ash, I broke a toenail, help me. Ash, my head hurts, what should I do?’ (Acheron)”

“Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.”

Years Said Age Acting Four Thousand Honey Thousand Years Pegasus

Book:The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War

Source: The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War

“I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.”

Philosophy Use Four Theory Thousand Prove Pages Hundred Smarter Lit Continental

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof?”

Body Four Nice Happened Thousand Glasses Proof Pounds Old Fashioned Missiles Armor Bulletproof

Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.”

People World Years Has Beens Four Alive Dying Thousand Tough Theater Institutions Devoted Thousand Years

Book:Once There Was a War

Source: Once There Was a War

“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”

Men Years Girl Five Four Fine Thousand Prejudice Fortune Dear Single Man Fine Things Mrs Bennet

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

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