Hundred Quotes - page 3

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent. (Dr. Seuss)
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. View quote
George Herbert
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. View quote
John Cheever
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. View quote
William Faulkner
There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. View quote
Richard Feynman
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. View quote
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. View quote
Doris Lessing
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. View quote
Carl Sagan
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. View quote
Jonathan Swift
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. (Rumi)
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. View quote
Henry Adams
If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. View quote
Confucius
You must do over the same subject ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must appear accidental, even a movement. View quote
Edgar Degas
A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe. View quote
Le Corbusier
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends - the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit. View quote
Smedley Butler
We got a real clear picture of what they all value. Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first hundred days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, 'unchain Wall Street.' View quote
Joe Biden
We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us. View quote
Joseph Stalin
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. (Plato)
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. View quote
Albert Einstein
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. View quote
John Burroughs
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. View quote
Randall Jarrell