#thousands

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

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#i #men #mussolini #parade #saw

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#number #side #smallest #than #their

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#bizarre #england #place #produced #profoundly

Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman. ↗

— Curtis Sliwa

#asking #block #crime #day #every

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#decent #develop #environment #force #inarticulate

The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#boycott #effective #even #first #go

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends. ↗

— Major Taylor

#among #beset #class #closest #closest friends

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#around #beast #begin #bits #calculating

Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#band #cannot #course #deal #even