All Quotes

Thousands of Americans are forced to join unions as a condition of employment, with little to no chance of ever having their voices heard.
‐‐ Tim Scott

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
‐‐ Buddha

Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington.
‐‐ Lou Barletta

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives to terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, and thousands more will - because, unlike the Pakistani government, which has no coherent policy to deal with the radicals, the Taliban have one to deal with Pakistan and its citizens.
‐‐ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?
‐‐ Paula Abdul

Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.
‐‐ Boris Yeltsin

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.
‐‐ Sherrod Brown

Thousands of our post-9/11 veterans carry the invisible burden of post-traumatic stress, and there is an overwhelming need to expand the available treatment options.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out.
‐‐ Tobe Hooper

Thousands of people in my district need health insurance, and ACA is helping them. I'm committed to do everything I can to help people get enrolled and get covered, and that includes moving needed reforms for the bill and helping people find affordable coverage.
‐‐ Joe Garcia

Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel

Thousands of people perish in the Straits of Florida every year. We understand it within the context of the Cuban reality.
‐‐ Joe Garcia

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.
‐‐ Ernest Istook

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

Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
‐‐ Haile Selassie

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.
‐‐ Jared Diamond

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
‐‐ Randy Neugebauer

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry.
‐‐ Josh Fox

'Thrasher' magazine's Skater of the Year is clearly my No. 1 goal. The only way I get that is skating. Other than that, I haven't set that many outrageous goals. If I got Skater of the Year, that would just really add to it all and make me feel really good. Whether it's this year, next year or five years from now, that is my goal.
‐‐ Ryan Sheckler

Thrashing about on stage is my exercise for the day!
‐‐ Imelda May

Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.
‐‐ Nate Berkus

Threads of Rosenquist and Warhol are all through my work. But I'm messier - and wetter. It's the female perspective. I'm not as tidy, and they were both very tidy.
‐‐ Marilyn Minter

Threat is in the eye of the beholder.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
‐‐ Ramez Naam

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.
‐‐ Juicy J

Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whatever - not saying they was rock, but they had a little rock-n-roll with some of their music, a little rock with it.
‐‐ Juicy J

Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film opportunity came up, but it's a unique place, and you can reach saturation point. For me it was a place where creative desire and ambition meets desperation. It's in the air; it's palpable - I just didn't want to be around that.
‐‐ Darren Boyd

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.
‐‐ John Spratt

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.
‐‐ Eric Alterman

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
‐‐ Alan Rickman

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.
‐‐ Loni Anderson

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

Three days a week and I'm home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.
‐‐ Martin Milner

Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.
‐‐ Marc Forster

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.
‐‐ Lou Harrison

Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.
‐‐ Dave Eggers

Three English bulldogs count for one kid.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
‐‐ Esther Williams

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.
‐‐ James Bryce

Three-fourths of the universe is hydrogen, and oxygen is incredibly abundant, too. So H2O is something you can find nearly everywhere.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
‐‐ Dick Armey

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

Three hours of focused time on the projects that will really add value and uplift your career are so much better than 10 hours where you are constantly being interrupted and taken off your focus.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.
‐‐ Holly Black