Hundred Quotes - page 4

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say that they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politician stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like. (Randall Jarrell)
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives. View quote
John Ralston Saul
In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe. View quote
David McCallum
Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first. View quote
Derek Landy
Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. View quote
A. R. Ammons
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time. View quote
Buffalo Bill
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it? View quote
Ian Botham
I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends. View quote
Mary MacLane
I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know? (Kiefer Sutherland)
What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and oversatiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer. View quote
Caspar David Friedrich
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement. View quote
William Glasser
Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? ... What is lacking now are goods on the shelves-that is all. View quote
Robert Mugabe
That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers. View quote
Jean-Paul Marat
A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will. View quote
George Eliot
The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires. View quote
Banksy
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. (Francis Parkman)
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year. View quote
Thomas Malthus
What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius