#thousand

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create. ↗

— Christo

#because #beings #bigger #build #create

Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.' ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#bring #get #home #hundreds #i

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? ↗

— Norman Cousins

#being #destructive #every #fact #force

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#call #ears #education #every #hand

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#dance #how #i #learn #rather

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system. ↗

— William Glasser

#hundred #improve #keep #long #nothing

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#annals #behind #commonwealth #different #empire

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#drinking #easy #i #now #off

Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#always #few #friendships #save #therapy

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#always #apart #beijing #beirut #better