#thousand

They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old. ↗

— Eddie Slovik

#bread #deserting #done #guys #i

The sea complains upon a thousand shores. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#sea #shores #thousand #upon

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. ↗

— Sophocles

#faring #just #just one #like #more

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#got #guy #hired #i #me

My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#america #debate #died #engage #family

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#booty #came #cars #city #different

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned. ↗

— David Crane

#change #design #designs #found #hardware

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#better #bowing #give #heads #heart

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. ↗

— Stephen Vincent Benet

#dragging #dying #life #lost #minute

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#cumulative #democracy #education #history #inheritance