#sand

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

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#last #moment #never #ordinary #sand

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#affairs #could #days #foresee #rich

I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#died #feel #horribly #i #i feel

It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#great #group #laugh #laughing #more

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

With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying. ↗

— Wilt Chamberlain

#different #different times #found #having #i

The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile. ↗

— James Chanos

#banking system #built #china #chinese #clear

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are. ↗

— Harry Chapin

#stay #still #ten #thousand #thousand miles

I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#bad #bad guys #bang #bin #captured