Five Hundred Quotes

144 Five Hundred quotes by 134 unique authors

The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with… — Glen Cook
A wife should always be few feet behind her husband. If he is an MA you should be a BA.If he is 5'4'tall you shouldn't… — Shashi Deshpande
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without — A. R. Ammons
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. — Richard Courant
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five… — George Mikes
Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do books’? Can you imagine doing ministry in… — Leonard Sweet
Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give… — Erica Jong
Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth. — John H. Lienhard
It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying… — Joseph Sobran
It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
I'll be the first to admit that my idea of God is pretty different. I believe in a God with a long white beard, a… — Jack Handey
The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill
We went through the records and we found over five hundred of his patients who were alive and well five years after their treatment, with… — Gary Null
I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into… — Harvey Milk
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist… — Henry David Thoreau
Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel? — Bill Lear
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for… — Hernando Cortes
If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock,… — Olive Schreiner
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular… — Greg McKeown
Everyone used to chuck snails at each other at school, and I used to try and save them. And not only did I get in… — Robert Pattinson
Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel , crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting into showers. Oh,… — Charles Spurgeon
Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years. — Charles Hermite
I'd seen Sage bleed. I'd made Sage bleed. Not that it hurt him any; he healed so quickly...In smaller doses it has incredible healing powers.… — Hilary Duff
The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind… — Paul Kingsnorth
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My… — Laurence Sterne

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