Hundred Quotes - Page 6

• The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue.

  Andy Borowitz

  Years, Two, Long

  "In Landmark Decision, Supreme Court Strikes Down Main Reason Country Was Started". Satire from The Borowitz Report, www.newyorker.com. May 05, 2014.

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• While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future. In doing so, we must not resort to superficial measures. Instead, it is imperative to engage in true reforms that ascertain the state of society we seek to achieve.

  Shinzo Abe

  Japan, Years, Important

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• Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

  Peter Benenson

  Years, Pressure, Opinion

  Peter Benenson's remarks in 1961, as quoted in Paul Gordon Lauren "The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen" (p. 251), 2011.

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• What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

  Brian Aldiss

  Animal, Miles, Species

  "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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• When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.

  Joseph Addison

  Years, Yesterday, Great Day

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.284

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• The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy.

  Doris Lessing

  Philosophy, Army, Should Have

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.

  Daniel Defoe

  Christian, Running, Horse

  Daniel Defoe (1840). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”

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• The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Fun, Thinking, Goal

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Simple, Space

  Isaac Asimov (2008). “The Stars, Like Dust”, p.28, Tor Books

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• In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Book, Eye, Writing

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 322, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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• In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

  Camille Paglia

  Years, Intellectual, Twenties

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

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• The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.

  Camille Paglia

  Thinking, Errors, Years

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.

  Stephen Spender

  Effort, Ordinary, Statistics

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.151, Faber & Faber

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• While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Past, Reality, Years

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.49, Penguin

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• A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Fool, Compliment

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• To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

  Aristophanes

  Art, Triumph, Argument

  Aristophanes (2015). “The Clouds”, p.61, Aristophanes

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• On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four

  Tom Lehrer

  Christmas, Men, Three

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• Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

  Washington Allston

  Lying, Toads, Young

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.173

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• Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. You know, I think the novel keeps redefining the world we live in. What you should look for in a novel is a window nobody else is looking out of, that nobody else can look through. What you look for is a voice. You pick up a novel by someone such as Faulkner or Hemingway and you just read three pages and you know who wrote it. And that's what one should demand of a novelist.

  Mordecai Richler

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

  Alan Lightman

  Voice, Numbers, People

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.

  David Livingstone

  Feet, Space, Twenties

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• To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.

  Charles A. Reich

  Dream, Men, Years

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

  Iain Banks

  Light, Years, Towns

  Iain M. Banks (2008). “Use Of Weapons”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.

  Harry Chapin

  Rocks, Years, Important

  Song: The Rock, Album: Portrait Gallery, 1975

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• [I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation.

  Michael Chabon

  Couple, Boys, Men

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, 2000.

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