Top 1200 Tens Of Thousands Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

There has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is effectively infinite.

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

There is a big difference between performing in WWE before thousands of people in an arena and acting in a scene with a camera close-up on your face.

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind

Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those.

Pyongyang possesses thousands of artillery pieces 30 miles from Seoul. Just one retaliatory salvo could decimate South Korea's capital.

Why take chances? It may be nonsense, but does anybody really know? And people have certainly been fascinated by astrology for thousands of years.

I feel more like a father to a child: my Cube inspired thousands of 'twisty puzzles,' and I'm amazed how it continues to excite new generations.

Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.

To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

Any time you employ thousands of people, some people do dumb things.

I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently.

I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.

The adrenaline of being somewhere no one has ever been before is, or at least not for thousands of years, is quite extraordinary and by and large that overwhelms the feeling of personal terror.

My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.

Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

The challenges both internal and external to the NCAA present a unique opportunity to help shape the landscape for hundreds of thousands of young men and women.

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.

You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it.

Telegram is heavily encrypted and privacy-oriented, but we're no friends of terrorists - in fact, every month we block thousands of ISIS-related public channels.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race.

We're all humans living on this tiny little rock, floating through space at, like, thousands of miles an hour. We should all just get along.

There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

Beyond speech and mind, Into the river of ever-effulgent Light My heart dives. Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia, Are opened wide.

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.

When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

I never really had a lot of friends where I lived. Online, you can have thousands of friends.

The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.

In a company, you buy thousands of things. Every item you buy has its own footprint.

I get to travel the world in front of thousands of people and get paid for it. It's pretty awesome.

One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

So much music in Africa was created for specific moments, written for rituals or for a funeral or for challenges, thousands of years ago, and these rhythms are still used.

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.

I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw that light into them.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.

Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.

I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated.

Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.

If we grow up in these communities where we have gangs, well, what do you think we're going to belong to? That's what happened to me and what's still happening to hundreds of thousands of other individuals.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses.

If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!