Five Hundred Quotes

144 Five Hundred quotes by 134 unique authors

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is… — B.F. Skinner
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. — Edmond de Goncourt
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I… — William Least Heat-Moon
Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and… — Elinor Lipman
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. — Ernest Mandel
You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head… — Linus Torvalds
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name. — Marie de France
In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds. — William Lilly
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years. — Thomas Bulfinch
President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program. — Mario Diaz-Balart
You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in… — Lenny Kravitz
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one… — Peter Ustinov
A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. — Thomas Tusser
God loves all his children, somehow we've forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago. — Macklemore
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. — Robert Genn
At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters. — Marcus Garvey
The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie… — Ricky Gervais
I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much reality television. They… — Dolph Lundgren
Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so… — Edward Bach
We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times… — Jimmy Carter
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! — Graham Greene
If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least… — Vladimir Lenin
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. — Francis Parkman
I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and… — Kiefer Sutherland
I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got… — Serj Tankian

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