#thousand

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful. ↗

— Rex Stout

#effort #shrewd #stokes #thousand #touches

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#agreed #been #call #deeper #divine

For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#children #decades #helped #i #supported

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. ↗

— Felix Adler

#animating #comforting #past #speaks #stirring

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#attempts #billion #came #doubt #either

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#deaths #fully #hear #hearts #imagined

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ↗

— Eric Brown

#between #book #day #five #garden

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#day #fathers #founding #founding fathers #home

The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#anthem #attack #australia #because #been

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#ago #asked #come #course #done