#thousand

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#chambers #concentration #five #gas #gas chambers

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? ↗

— Harold Pinter

#about #afford #earth #five #forget

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#give #menu #metaphysics #page #restaurant

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#civil #civil society #international #nations #new

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#may #right #thousand #two #writer

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. ↗

— Henry Miller

#desperation #face #look #nobody #passing

There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and hundreds of thousands of dollars for 'American Idol.' There will be advertising dollars on the Internet. We're there as well. We win either way. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#american #american idol #bowl #dollars #either

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#chances #changes #enthusiasm #excuse #going

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#cure #get #give #god #him