Five Hundred Quotes

144 quotes by 136 authors

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light… — Chinua Achebe
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he… — Henry Adams
In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too… — Nolan Bushnell
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the… — Eric Temple Bell
For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the… — John Bagot Glubb
But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred… — William Allen Butler
I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people. — Gordon Bell
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred. — Meredith Willson
Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider… — Charles Caleb Colton
All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times — Rosemary Wells
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism.… — Immanuel Wallerstein
But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the peoples five hundred… — Adolf Hitler
The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have… — Wendell Berry
Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which… — Thomas Carlyle
Also, it's not the mathematical skill that's critical to winning, it's the discipline of being able to stick to the system. There are very few… — Blair Hull
Maybe I should have killed four, five hundred people. Then I would have felt better. Then I would have felt like I really offered society… — Charles Manson
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. — Edward Abbey
I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than… — Herman Melville

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