Hundred Quotes
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.
Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.
To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.
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.
Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.
Three-hundred million years from now, the only thing that will matter is whether you're in Heaven or in Hell.
Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.
The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.
Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.
I went to the 30th reunion of my preschool. I didn't want to go, because I've put on like a hundred pounds.
Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine.
What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.
Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
Ads which ran 30-50 years ago, even a hundred years ago, are often better than those you see today. You’ll get great ideas to use in your marketing.
Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.
People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.
Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.
I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.
I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.
Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.