Hundred Quotes - Page 3

• An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women.

  Art Buchwald

  Money, Men, Making Love

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• Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Palaces, Slave

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• A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Men, Boston, Years

  Sam Walter Foss (1895). “Whiffs from Wild Meadows”

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• What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.

  Stephen Fry

  Tree, Trying, Frogs

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• A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Prudes, Credit

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• The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

  Alice Cary

  Dream, Done, Burden

  Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.122

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• A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eye, Double Minded, Duplicity

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pain, Life Is, Drink

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• Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.

  Bryan Procter

  Mother, Wall, Wine

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• For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside, towards an art of arrangement whose expressiveness depends less and less upon its elements imitating the objects of the external world.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Years, Leaving

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• 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.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Bridges, Mind, Painting

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• When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.

  Anita Desai

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Past, Years, Today

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• One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Atmosphere, President, Bail

  "Industry - but not NRA - backs some restrictions on guns". www.cnn.com. May 10, 1999.

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• "God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten
  But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

  Macklemore

  Children, Book, Years

  "Song: 'Same Love'". 2012.

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• I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.

  Joan Miro

  Vocabulary, Discovery, Different

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• Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.

  Dan Jones

  Offering, Cards, Crowds

  "Black Friday shoppers turn out to get bargains". www.cnn.com. November 26, 2005.

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• I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.

  Julie Newmar

  Feet, Pounds, Looks

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• When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had condemned his theory of relativity in a book. 'Were I wrong,' he said, 'one professor would have been enough.

  Jacob Epstein

  Book, Nazi, Enough

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• The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Moving, Thinking

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• Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

  Robert Genn

  Tombstone, Years, Lasts

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• As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes.

  Richard Schmid

  Spiritual, Forever, Vision

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• At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.

  Hokusai

  Real, Animal, Bird

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• We must visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament a hundred thousand times a day.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Jesus, Blessed, Thousand

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• For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Religious, Islamic, Years

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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