#thousand

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#any #beautiful #buy #dollars #i

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#fathers #orphan #thousand #victory

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#die #every #five #nobody #nobody cares

It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#concentrating #cost #engineers #idea #improving

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. ↗

— George Santayana

#experience #into #like #meanings #shell

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#american troops #growing #insurgency #into #iraqi

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#bring #finer #human #human being #into

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people. ↗

— Greg Egan

#hundreds #people #read #story #thousands

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. ↗

— Washington Irving

#deep #eloquently #grief #love #mark

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. ↗

— Washington Irving

#create #disadvantage #every #irresistible #minds