#thousand

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

— Dave Barry

#always #miles #opportunity #prevailing #rain

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#everything #human #human thought #late #more

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#die #eating #few #hundred #hunger

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million. ↗

— David R. Brower

#million #perhaps #realize #ten #thousand

When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#christian #country #listen #networks #now

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. ↗

— Thomas Carper

#barely #basic #basic needs #bills #dollars

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#becomes #fail #hitters #i #superior

I don't think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this time, and there were thousands of people, engineers and scientists, they know where the weapons are. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#i #involved #know #many #people

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create. ↗

— Christo

#because #beings #bigger #build #create

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#chinese #experiences #had #i #interesting