Twenty Thousand Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race,…
— Martin Luther
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Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend twenty thousand dollars…
— Jordan Belfort
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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out…
— Pete Seeger
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Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south. If we cannot…
— Mao Zedong
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Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.
— Michael Pollan
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I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our…
— Eudora Welty
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You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get…
— Agatha Christie
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When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived…
— John McPhee
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The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are…
— Dorothy Dunnett
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Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.
— Alexander Gordon Smith
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A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!
— Gaston Leroux
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My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked.…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.
— Bible
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The world is not a dream, but a reality, of which we are the chief part, and in which we must be up and doing…
— Bilal Zahoor
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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Twenty thousand on my watch because I needed time. If y'all would leave me the fuck alone, that'd be divine.
— Mac Miller
Who Wrote These Twenty Thousand Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Twenty Thousand Quotes as follows: