#thousand

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#good #hard #hard work #heard #i

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#feel #hundred #i #knew #nothing

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#different ways #hong #hong kong #i #i can

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. ↗

— Lord Byron

#control #dark #deep #earth #fleets

Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#best #canadian #enormous #families #governments

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#christianity #deep #deep end #end #far

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#between #blood #europe #flowed #forget

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#happiness #others #person #scarcely #tasting

I've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#bank #best #england #homes #hundreds

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! ↗

— Davy Crockett

#chance #fame #fellow #greased #hands