Hundred Quotes

2566 Hundred quotes by 1727 unique authors

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. — Edward Abbey
I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were to perish, and… — Samuel Adams
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved… — Thomas Paine
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved… — Arthur C. Clarke
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
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a… — Charles Perrault
It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and… — George McGovern
I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than… — Herman Melville
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question:… — George R. R. Martin
I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time. — Alessandro Manzoni
An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor. — Malcolm X
Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred… — Mark Helprin
I guess what I like in my movies is where you see a character change by maybe two degrees as opposed to the traditional movie… — Paul Thomas Anderson
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one… — Rabindranath Tagore
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. — Melina Marchetta
Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence… — Samuel Rutherford
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to… — Mary Augusta Ward
In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it. — Julius Nyerere
I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing… — John Cage
You got to play a hundred and fifty games a year, so pick your spots. You can miss two games a month; so pick the… — Hank Aaron
I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human… — Antonin Artaud
What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing… — Sally Mann
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has… — Ambrose Bierce
Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with… — Laozi

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