Top 1200 Tens Of Thousands Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

Reincarnation is the evolution of spirit through matter. Over thousands and millions of lifetimes, the soul evolves. It comes into the light. The growth is slow.

Decisions made centrally, thousands of miles from the markets clients are operating in, will likely not be as attuned to local market realities.

Go to any bookstore, and you'll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there's a lot of self-help going on. There is hope.

Nothing will ever bring back George Floyd, or any of the thousands of others we have lost to racist police violence.

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.

I want to be a voice for the thousands of women in our community who work hard, play by the rules, and still are struggling to get ahead.

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

Having a small business and being one of thousands of people whom no one in government will listen to, I have decided to run for supervisor as a person.

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

You can only absorb when you look back at photos: like when we played Coachella, and there are thousands of people in the audience, and you just walk on stage.

Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement.

The Internet has created so many niche audiences that when millions or even thousands of people can be on the same page it's a truly special thing.

Fear, physical pain, and death are just part of the price Americans pay for the easy access of handguns. It is estimated that the total costs to Americans of gun violence (the vast majority of which involves handguns) is measured in tens of billions of dollars.3 In comparison, the wholesale value of the 1.3 million handguns manufactured in America in 1998 totaled only $370 million.

This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.

Thousands of Americans are forced to join unions as a condition of employment, with little to no chance of ever having their voices heard.

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

The N.B.A. provides a big platform to shed light on the human rights violations in Turkey and gives a voice to the thousands of people persecuted.

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

There were thousands of women in New York alone who could replace me in his life, but there was only one Gideon Cross.

Human beings have been manipulating the biological world for thousands of years without understanding how DNA codes function.

At the same time, on the networks, there are thousands of groups that are building lifestreams, or lifestreaming for themselves in their own way. We'd love to see this activity.

I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.

A Grateful Dead concert is much more than the music: it's an experience, almost like being in a family of thousands of people.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.

The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's the thing. They have to.

You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

Special Olympics is such an empowering organization for the thousands of athletes involved and those of us like myself who lend support to them.

Today, hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients are under medical treatment, which is a great advancement. But it makes some people reckless.

Today, its expensive prescription medications burdening seniors on fixed incomes with thousands of dollars in yearly out-of-pocket costs.

Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

The truth is, I never travel without cash. I always take a few tens with me in case of an emergency. There's never been an emergency, and in time, I realized that Americans don't want to touch customers' dirty bills. They also don't want to touch your credit card: you have to put it through the machine yourself, with your own fingers.

I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.

I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.

And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you.

If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange.

It is indeed possible to change your view of the universe from indifferent to friendly. I have helped thousands of persons make this transition in my workshops.

We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.

I've known just thousands of people a hell of a lot more talented than me who never could get anywhere.

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.