I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal. — Walther von der Vogelweide Copy Share Image
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful. — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in,… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of… — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
I actually think I left 10 to 20 pounds on the stage, because it went up pretty easily. Seven hundred has been… — Pepe Smith Copy Share Image
I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it - I want… — Ireland Baldwin Copy Share Image
I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Our beliefs about ourselves in relation to the world around us are the roots of our values, and our values determine not… — Henry Stapp Copy Share Image
On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their… — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
I'd seen Sage bleed. I'd made Sage bleed. Not that it hurt him any; he healed so quickly...In smaller doses it has… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand.… — Robert Greenberg Copy Share Image
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
