Hundredth Quotes

45 quotes by 41 authors

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a… — Bill Bryson
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to… — Robert Doisneau
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help. — Jane Austen
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools… — Henry Lawson
What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive;… — Salman Rushdie
Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit… — Michael Phelps
Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written â€” as long as I… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read? — David Markson
We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of… — Barry Schuler
If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in… — John Kendrick Bangs
That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it,… — Ezra Pound
A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. — Antonio Porchia
I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of… — George MacDonald
"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and… — Winston Churchill
A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could… — David Remnick
Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with others. The memory… — Robert Doisneau
Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time… — Cesar Chavez
It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian,… — James A. Michener
America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can… — Osama bin Laden

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