I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.
Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thousand men.
The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
You live a thousand lives when you read a thousand books.
I probably wasted a couple of thousand dollars on some dumb-ass clothes.
We are a nation of communities. . . a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?
Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.
Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.
The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.
If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.
If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.
My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.
Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.
She was my mother. I couldn't threaten to slap, stab, beat or even name call her. I tried to think of something to scare her into never mentioning the predicament with the Dreamsnatcher again. I'll become a swinger," I said. her eyes bugged. Uptight rearing made her uncomfortable with alternate lifestyles. "That's right. threesomes, foursomes, and more. bones knows about a thousand chicks who'd love to hop into bed with us. It'll be kinky, we'll get out freak on. -
If I have to remove one to save ten, I'll do it in a heartbeat. If I have to waterboard somebody to save a thousand people, I'll do it in a heartbeat.