Three Thousand Quotes
68 quotes by 59 authors
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
— Hank Aaron
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Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall…
— Jules Verne
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Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them…
— Mark Twain
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The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.
— Tadeusz Borowski
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As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand…
— Helen Hunt
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When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero…
— Pete Rose
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On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams,…
— Carl Yastrzemski
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit…
— Carl Yastrzemski
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Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game
— Rafael Palmeiro
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As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute.
— Cal Ripken, Jr.
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A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out.…
— Mark Rydell
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How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height…
— Confucius
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Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
— Martha Graham
Who Wrote These Three Thousand Quotes
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