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Three thousand, it's just a number, it's just a game.

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about games, numbers

I know collectors with forty thousand bottles who if you poured them a glass of Gallo Hearty Burgundy wouldn't know the difference.

Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr. about contentment

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to...

Quote by Blaise Pascal about things, man

We lost nearly three thousand brave souls and I expect ground zero will become the most visited site in North America.

Quote by George Pataki

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Quote by Walter Pater about experience, objects, reality, action

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about war, concentration, world, people, contentment

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.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about history, concentration, war, world, contentment

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.

Quote by Li Peng about country

I believe the World Bank and other institutions can be turned around and do what they were originally intended to do, which is help reconstruct devastated parts of the world. Help genuinely help poor people. There are twenty-four thousand people...

Quote by John Perkins about opinion, help, bankers, world, change, people, death, faith, day

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about recollection, old, olderness

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child, our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

Quote by Richard Burton about childhood, children, love

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

Quote by John Wesley about opinion, present, god, things

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.

JQuote by John Balguy about contentment, happiness

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

Quote by Simon Wiesenthal about power

Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about reliability, despair, contentment

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Quote by Edward Estlin Cummings about opinion, dance, celebrity, stars

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Quote by Alfred Nobel about idea, good, good luck

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us then ten-thousand truths.

Quote by Aleksandr Sergheevici Puskin about delusion

You, O Queen, are the fairest here, But Snow White, who has gone to stay With the seven dwarfs far, far away, Is a thousand times more fair. Snow White

Quote by Wilhelm Grimm about literature, contentment

Laziness is a kind of prehistoric animal, with thousands of tentacles, ever-changing skin, with an infinite variety of scales; it changes its scales and beliefs accorting to comfort criterion.

Quote by Teodor Mazilu about laziness, infinite