#thousands

I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school. ↗

— Ryan White

#because #go #i #letters #received

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. ↗

— Orville Wright

#already #been #even #first #flight

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#great #i #kings #old #palaces

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

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#bother #crowded #flights #full #i

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

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#itself #jails #justice #killing #lands

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#because #between #both #determined #divided

But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#basically #care #doing #experience #feeling

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#acres #daughter #dog #doing #her