Two Hundred Quotes
168 Two Hundred quotes by 147 unique authors
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
— Charles de Gaulle
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred…
— Samuel Johnson
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military,…
— Barack Obama
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand…
— Babe Ruth
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Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane…
— Kevin Smith
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the…
— Elie Wiesel
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My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people…
— David Sedaris
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
— Voltaire
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So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes it, though. They…
— Haruki Murakami
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We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant.…
— Dashiell Hammett
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In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds…
— Stephen King
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked,…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.
— Jimmy Buffett
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The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone,…
— Jen Lancaster
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Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old,…
— Orson Scott Card
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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world…
— William Ralph Inge
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Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many…
— Anthony Horowitz
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Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real…
— Shannon Hale
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I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you…
— Diana Gabaldon
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I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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And if you eat enough of those souls, they begin to corrupt you until you become one of them. Everyone knows that. (Kat) Only if…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Who Wrote These Two Hundred Quotes
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