Hundred Quotes

2566 Hundred quotes by 1727 unique authors

I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon… — Hamlin Garland
The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a… — Anna Brownell Jameson
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
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,… — William Faulkner
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so… — Friedrich Nietzsche
America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a… — James Madison
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
The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order… — P.J. O'Rourke
As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom. — Katharine Sergeant Angell White
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts… — Aldous Huxley
One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. — James Madison
[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It… — Seth Shostak
There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could… — Bob Dylan
If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every… — Dave Barry
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
They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great… — George Washington
I have been studying now for about 2 years, on a rather intensive basis, the UFO problem. I have interviewed several hundred witnesses in selected… — James MacDonald
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred. — Thomas A. Edison
You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you. — Lee Iacocca
If we (Lauren and Jim) ever get married, we're just going to put helmets on, run into each other from a hundred yards, and smash… — Jim Carrey
In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well… — Abraham Lincoln
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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