#sands

People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy. ↗

— John Barrow

#assume #because #complete #fallacy #financial

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. ↗

— Dave Barry

#always #miles #opportunity #prevailing #rain

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#ahead #get #get married #give #go

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#christ #crucified #ever #few #hours

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#been #farmers #fighting #food #front

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children. ↗

— Charles Bronson

#children #figured #friends #had #i

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#floor #ocean #oyster #peaceful #rocked

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ↗

— Buddha

#being #candle #candles #decreases #happiness

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. ↗

— George Byron

#drop #falling #ink #like #makes

When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#christian #country #listen #networks #now