Five Hundred Quotes
144 Five Hundred quotes by 134 unique authors
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Five hundred years from now, who'll know the difference?!
— Charles M. Schulz
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The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of…
— A A Milne
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You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.
— Justina Chen
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This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.
— Jennifer Egan
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Hamilton had a complaint. "Why did you have to tell the cops I'm your boyfriend? That's gross, Amy. We're related!" Amy was disgusted. "We had…
— Gordon Korman
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You are mine, Aisling. You are mine today, tomorrow and five hundred years from now. You will always be mine. I do not give up…
— Katie MacAlister
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Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of…
— Terence McKenna
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I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat…
— Rick Riordan
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What? You mean to travel almost five hundred miles alone? No. I can’t let you do that. I . . . I forbid you.” It…
— Tessa Dare
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Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way…
— Terry Pratchett
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I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer…
— Lauren DeStefano
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Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You…
— Dale Carnegie
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Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from…
— Jacob Bronowski
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If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue the lives of…
— Unknown Author
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When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
— Yanni
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A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the…
— August Wilson
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Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions,…
— Michael J. Saylor
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
— Pat Conroy
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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
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Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed…
— John Edward Redmond
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can…
— Brooks Adams
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A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.
— Lewis Hallam
Who Wrote These Five Hundred Quotes
134 authors contributed a total of 144 Five Hundred Quotes, led by these top contributors: