#thousand

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#barack #barack obama #him #i #knew

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#day #official #people #terrorist #thousand

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. ↗

— Joe Baca

#every #independence #independence day #mayo #mexico

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#die #eating #few #hundred #hunger

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#freed #i #knew #more #only

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#could #freed #i #if i could #more

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#interested #one thing #profoundly #secret #thing

I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#active #around #become #being #candidates

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#degrees #event #hot #remains #thousand