It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Most people would guess that the sun is fifty or a hundred times brighter than the moon, but it's a half million… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
I personally have said many times I'd be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of… — Laurence D. Fink Copy Share Image
It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
There's an ancient bond that still exists today between horses and humans, it is even there with people that have never ridden… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Even though you make twelve hundred bucks a month, if I was making twelve hundred bucks a month to play baseball, I… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
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Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their… — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it is the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures.… — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid… — Johannes Rau Copy Share Image