#sand

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

— Imelda Marcos

#did #had #i #pairs #shoes

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed. ↗

— Adam Levine

#come #get #highly #hour #i

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#companies #enron #failures #i #i think

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#chamber #columns #echo #general #general manager

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#brother-in-law #brought #coverage #fact #fiancee

It's not that," said Magnus "There are some people - people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it's only by love and sacrifice so great that it destroys the giver. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-lost-souls #jace-lightwood #magnus-bane #mortal-instruments #beauty

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower. ↗

— Gary Locke

#china #compass #economic #gunpowder #history

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#departing #footprints #great #great men #leave

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

#broken #changed #command #corps #defeat