Usa Quotes - Page 17

Conscience is a thousand swords.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.

Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.

The despicable North Korean attack in Rangoon deprived us of trusted advisers and friends. So many of those who died had won admirers in America as they studied with us or guided us with their counsel. I personally recall the wisdom and composure of Foreign Minister Lee, with whom I met in Washington just a few short months ago. To the families and countrymen of all those who were lost, America expresses its deep sorrow.

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation.

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

Every city, every town, every region in USA has these weird things - the way they pronounce words, or what they call soda, or how people drive. It's a huge country, and there's all these strange pockets of behavioral patterns that social anthropologists could spend lifetimes researching and reporting on.

One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.

The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration [in the USA] today are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.

When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom we had no quarrel. 'The ultimate test of our professionalism' is how Commander McKendrick describes an unprovoked attack on a nation with no submarines, no navy and no air force, and now with no clean water and no electricity and, in many hospitals, no anaesthetic with which to amputate small limbs shredded by shrapnel. I have seen elsewhere how this is done, with a gag in the patient's mouth.