#thousand

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#critical #dark #genius #imbecile #imbeciles

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#i #i love #i love you #love #love you

They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March. ↗

— William John Wills

#expedition #exploration #fitting #fund #here

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#counsels #hasty #heat #judgment #light

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#body #both #combination #harley #mind

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

— Ahmed Yassin

#gaza #i #i think #invading #israel

After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country. ↗

— Isaac Yeffet

#airport #around #being #came #country

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#actually #camps #chechnya #come #extremist

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#classes #eliminated #history #others #some

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#cavalry #chance #deep #defended #entrenched