Hundred Quotes - Page 26

• You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel.

  Ryan Murphy

  Flannels, Cotton, Sheets

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• The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English (Jews) and the French (Jews) have been employed for centuries in every court and country in Europe. Look back to the history of Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Italy and Turkey for the last hundred years...all the power of Europe will be continually maneuvering with us to work us into the real or imaginary balance of power.

  John Adams

  Country, Real, Turkeys

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• For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Years, Done

  Voltaire, Frederick II (King of Prussia) (1927). “Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great”

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• No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

  Francis Bacon

  Time, Artist, Years

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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• Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.

  John Gould

  Book, Sky, Two

  John Gould (1873). “An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain”, p.4

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• I'd like to live to a hundred.

  Muhammad Ali

  "Muhammad Ali: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• If you start to give of yourself, be it ever so simple a fashion, the world will observe your spirit and show you many needs that you can supply. There are a hundred ways of giving away little margins of time you will never miss, which could be riches to someone.

  David Dunn

  Fashion, Simple, Giving

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• There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

  Mark Twain

  Spring, Weather, Twenties

  Address at New England Society's Seventy-First Annual Dinner, New York, N.Y., 22 Dec. 1876

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• The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling rocks, then several reasoners might be better than one. But reasoning isn't like hauling rocks, it's like, it's like racing, where a single, galloping Barbary steed easily outruns a hundred wagon-pulling horses.

  Galileo Galilei

  Horse, Rocks, Numbers

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• Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Years, Keys

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• At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains in front of you, when you know that you have to a goal a few hundred, a few dozen meters when you are right in front. This is the time of happiness.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Goal, Dozen, Explosions

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• At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to Bombay, which your eye encompasses in a single glance, can break your heart with its beauty. Home you think. Home. This is my world. This is where I come from. Everyone I know, everyone I ever heard of, grew up down there, under that relentless and exquisite blue.

  Carl Sagan

  Home, Heart, Eye

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps we are only forerunners. Twenty or even a hundred years may pass before the National Socialist idea is victorious; those who believe in the ideal today may die: but what is a man in the development of a people, of mankind.

  Adolf Hitler

  Believe, Men, Years

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• For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted, but it is only within the last thirty that any serious attempt has been made to find a remedy for this state of things. And with what result? Schools remain exactly as they were.

  John Amos Comenius

  School, Years, Way

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• In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

  Confucius

  Book, Three, May

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• I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.

  Hafez

  Mind, Court, Cases

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• I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

  John Quincy Adams

  Morning, Reading, Years

  John Quincy Adams (1970). “The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814”, Arno Pr

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• But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that there was potential here to go on and write an engaging story set in that world. So that's what I did. This probably ruins things both for the people who want small literary novels and for those who want action-packed epics, but anyway, it's what I wrote.

  Neal Stephenson

  Couple, Writing, Epic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for a few hundred years and in different forms before that. There is great passion regardless of the fact that it's expensive and people who invest in it are giving money because they believe in it. They're not getting anything back other than satisfaction and enjoyment of hopefully many people having a human, deep, reflective and meditative experience that at its core is incredibly emotional.

  Jake Heggie

  Believe, Passion, Emotional

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.

  Salman Rushdie

  Taken, Decision, Twenties

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• [Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

  Lawrence Lessig

  Dollars, Welfare, Cronies

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• The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD).

  Michael Tsarion

  Egypt, Years, Four

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• If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.

  Arundhati Roy

  Religious, Years, Looks

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• I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, America, Years

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• Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.

  Rudy Wiebe

  People, Generations, Stories

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