Eight Hundred Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on…
— James Wolfensohn
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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the…
— Charles Spurgeon
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.
— Laozi
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The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather,…
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the…
— Elie Wiesel
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People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious…
— Frank McCourt
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Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in…
— Dorothy Dunnett
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The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of…
— Rick Riordan
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Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if…
— Eleanor Porter
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I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something…
— Kami Garcia
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... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.
— Eleanor Porter
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I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred…
— Mark Twain
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In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.
— Robert Toombs
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And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.
— Bible
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For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the…
— Yoda
Who Wrote These Eight Hundred Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Eight Hundred Quotes as follows: