. . . One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.
And on that day when my strength is failing; the end draws near and my time has come. Still my soul will sing Your praise unending ten thousand years and then forevermore
My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.
A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.
The Pentagon tested an anti-missile system in New Mexico Wednesday. The test was an incomplete success. While the interceptor was shooting down the incoming missile, three thousand illegal aliens walked right across the border under its nose.
We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China. . . and it becomes this shell game.
One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.
I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.
The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.
Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die. Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.
If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
Go home and say to yourself, ‘I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times. But He loves me! I have lost faith in some of my dearest friends and am very desolate. But He loves me! I do not love Him, I am even angry with Him! But He loves me!
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.
It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
Above all, beware of platitudes, i. e. , word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times. . . . As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).
The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you!
The mind has a thousand eyes.