#thousand

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#average #been #bombs #fifteen #hiroshima

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#destruction #imagine #innocent #mass #men

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#dollars #drinking #earlier #easier #fifty

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#earth #ecclesiastical #else #everything #fixed

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#came #dollars #game #get #go

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#clock #competition #desperate #friday #friday night

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#curious #dead #english #english people #few

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

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#city #could #days #extraordinary #find