Four Hundred Quotes
61 quotes by 58 authors
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
— A. R. Ammons
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Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.
— Jeremy Cronin
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I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
— Andrew Dickson White
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A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.
— Earl Long
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I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance'! White people seem to think the black ought to be shouting 'hallelujah'! Four hundred…
— Malcolm X
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Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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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The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie…
— Dan Jenkins
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When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in…
— Stephan Pastis
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An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.
— Malcolm X
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I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can…
— Katie Davis
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The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is whiteblacks knew that white blood is…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and…
— Twyla Tharp
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window…
— John Cheever
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I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams,…
— Carl Yastrzemski
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Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get.
— Shane Warne
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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
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I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
— Zebulon Pike
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Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush…
— Mark Nepo
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Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's…
— Paul Shepard
Who Wrote These Four Hundred Quotes
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