Four Thousand Quotes

35 quotes by 31 authors

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four… — John Adams
Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened… — Jimmy Carter
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However… — Charles Dudley Warner
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his concept… — Robert Andrews Millikan
It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play… — Claudio Reyna
I was there when Abbe Georges LemaÃ®tre first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has… — Hannes Alfven
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front… — Olympia Dukakis
I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits. — Pete Rose
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. — Andrei Tarkovsky
The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) -… — Thomas Guthrie
When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go… — Betsy Byars
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. — Hannes Alfven
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and… — Orson Pratt
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Somethin' like four thousand bottles have been thrown at me in my day but only about twenty ever hit me. That does not speak very… — Harry Gordon Johnson
Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from… — John Lennon
During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four… — James Q. Wilson
Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from… — Guus Kuijer
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which… — Ezra Stiles
Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes… — Jeff Foxworthy

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