Quotes with hundred

Quotes 101 till 120 of 150.

  • Alan Dundes The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Philip Roth The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.
    The Human Stain (2000)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Fred A. Allen The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Buffalo Bill The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
    The Buffalo Bill Megapack: 5 Classic Books About Buffalo Bill Cody (2013 edition), Wildside Press LLC
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Robert Frost The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Douglas Adams The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Harry S. Truman The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Dean Inge The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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  • Lao-Tzu The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • John Cheever 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.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Oscar Wilde The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry David Thoreau There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Willie Shoemaker There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
    Willie Shoemaker
    American jockey (1931 - 2003)
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  • Bill Klem There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • Elie Wiesel There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Alfred Adler There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Bill Nye There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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