1000 Days Quotes & Sayings

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened. — John Pistole

There are 18,500 villages in the country where electricity is yet to reach. We want to ensure these villages are electrified within the next 1000 days. — Narendra Modi

Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn't mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn't need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades of Grey. I'm not so sure the world even needed ONE 50 Shades of Grey. — Oliver Gaspirtz

Ravens and crows. Rats Mists and clouds. Insects and corruption. Strange events and odd occurrences. The ordinary twisted and strange. Wonders!

The dead are beginning to walk and some see them. Others do not, but more and more, we all fear the night.

These have been our days. They rain upon us beneath a dead sky, crushing us with their fury, until as one we beg: "Let it begin!"

-Journal of the Unknown Scholar, entry for The Feast of Freia, 1000 NE — Brandon Sanderson

One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice. — Mas Oyama

He's entitled to his opinion, but that's all it is. An opinion. — Rick Yancey

So you open your mouth and listen to yourself say, "I want eight thousand a day. Plus expenses."
This is the polite, industry-standard way of saying "piss off, I'm not interested." You did the math over your morning coffee: You want to earn 100K a year, what with those bonuses you've been pulling on top of your salary. (Besides, a euro doesn't buy what it used to.) There are 250 working days in a year, and a contractor works for roughly 40 per cent of the time, so you need to charge yourself out at 2.5 times your payroll rate, or 1000 a day in order to meet your target. Not interested in the job? Pitch unrealistically high. You never know ...
"Done," says Mr. Pin-Stripe, staring at you expressionlessly. And it is at that point that you realize you are well and truly fucked. — Charles Stross

Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve. — M.F. Moonzajer

I am a winner. I just didn't win today. — Greg Norman

The more careless, the more modish. — Jonathan Swift

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook. — Carrot Top

Whatever you base your life on
you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you. — Timothy Keller

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be. — Dolly Parton

It takes 30 days to change a habit and 90 days to confirm a habit. In 120 days the new habit is a part of you and in 1000 days you have mastered the new habit. — Misty Jordyn

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected. — W.S. Gilbert

In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician. — Rick Scott

I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking around smiling, trying to earn enough to eat, while neurotically doing these little self-proofs in our head about how much better we are than these other slobs, while simultaneously, in another part of our brain, secretly feeling woefully inadequate to these smarter, more beautiful people. — George Saunders