Tausend / Thousand Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Tausend / Thousand:

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. Henry Fielding

I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.

Caleb Carr

Whenever someone says zygotes are babies, I reply: 'Imagine a thousand zygotes in test tubes in one room, and three toddlers in another. A fire breaks out, and you only have time to get to one room. Which would you save from burning - the zygotes or the children?'

Kurt Eichenwald

Succeeding in network prime time has gotten tougher. Every day, several thousand homes are wired for cable, and more people are buying videodisks and video cassettes. That all represents competition.

Fred Silverman

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

Ellen Key

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

George H. W. Bush

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

Imelda Marcos

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

Hans Frank

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

Chris Lowe

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

Tom Carper

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.

Ezra Stiles

Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.

John McWhorter

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.

James Longstreet

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

Kristen Stewart

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

Rube Goldberg

We need not only one Cesar Chavez; we need a thousand Cesar Chavezes.

Jorge Ramos

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

Robert Grosseteste

We think that we know people from this constellation of points: 'I know that story. I know that girl. I've heard that story a thousand times.' But actually, you never know that story.

Claire Messud

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

Rick Perlstein

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

Charles Baudelaire

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

Duke Snider

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.

Roz Chast

In one thousand years of Russia's existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

Russell M. Nelson

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Alexander Smith

It's not like what I do, how I write, changes depending on the nature of the project. I give each story my all, regardless of if there are a few thousand people reading it or a few hundred thousand.

Jason Aaron

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.

Samuel Richardson

One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.

Saint Ignatius

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

Robert M. Pirsig

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Martin Luther

I get nervous every single time. It doesn't matter if there're five people or five thousand. What I have noticed is that the more people there are, the less nervous I am. It's way harder to impress five people.

Justine Skye

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

Richard Burton

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

John Polkinghorne

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

George Santayana

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Theodore Roosevelt

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.

Robert Toombs

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

Hannes Alfven