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Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale… — Henry Chorley Copy Share Image
I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour. — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
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Make certain decisions only once . . . We can make a single decision about certain things that we will incorporate in… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up. — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, concerts were far more come-what-may - people played cards, drank beer and appreciated the music. If we go… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Regardless of what Einstein had come up with, it is very possible that a few hundred years into the future some scientist… — George Noory Copy Share Image
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully did all that well… — Rob Paulsen Copy Share Image
God loves all his children, somehow we've forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago. — Macklemore Copy Share Image
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold... — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Genius attracts more hate than love and more disrespect than respect; at least for the first few hundred years. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
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The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
If we are busy in a hundred good things - even great things, gospel things, glorious things - but don't sit at… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
We don't supply a hundred billion dollars worth of weapons to the war criminals in Saudi Arabia nor do we supply eight… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains… — Jerzy Kukuczka Copy Share Image
Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec,… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
If you're talking about mugging little old ladies, you don't say, 'What's our target for the rate of mugging little old ladies?'… — Ken Caldeira Copy Share Image
I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image