Quotes with thousand-a-year

Quotes 481 till 500 of 561.

  • Billy Sunday Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
    Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Emily Brontë Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Billy Tauzin Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Christopher Marlowe Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Boris Yeltsin We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Baba Kalyani We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Herman Melville We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bayard Rustin We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Antoinette Brown Blackwell We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
    Antoinette Brown Blackwell
    American Protestant minister (1825 - 1921)
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  • Bill Walsh We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • Bill Maris We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Herman Melville We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when you got your clothing.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Bob Graham We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bobby Rahal We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Bill Shuster We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Capper We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Bobby Farrelly We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Betty Ford We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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