“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.” FirstsHardAgeTroubleConditionsInformationThousandAccountsFinancialCurrentsInvestorsAccurateReservesVeilsMonetaryFleeingAccurate Information Author:Lawrence Summers
“So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?” YearsHeartMightTurnsChanceWalksTroubleOne DayThousandYears AgoThousand YearsConvenientHeart Attack Author:Garth Nix
“Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy.” YearsLastsEnemyTroubleHorrorThousandYeahCertaintyThousand YearsInquisitionMao Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.” KnowsStoriesFeelingsRunningTroubleThousandCriticismTalesArtisticRejectionInsultShadeComponentsQuiverWince Book:Becoming a Writer Source: Becoming a Writer
“Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.” MenWellsPersonsHas BeensShowsEvilEasyOpinionDoubtWrittenTroubleHeroThousandProveOccasionsConvinceSensibleConvincingUndertakings Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld