Hundred Quotes - Page 27

• In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this.

  Rand Paul

  Nsa, People, Aftermath

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Giving, Cooking

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• I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Food, Eye, Order

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• Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and chopped up and put back together, etc. Occasionally, though rarely, a poem just plops out of my head fully-formed. But always it is a blueprint of what my brain is trying to navigate at that moment.

  Sarah Kay

  Brain, Trying, Together

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• If you want to make real money, do something that scares the crap out of 99% of the population, and only one person in a couple of hundred is physically capable of.

  Charlie Kelly

  Couple, Real, Scare

  Source: ride.io

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• one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.

  Mary Daly

  Men, Law, People

  Mary Daly (1973). “Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.

  George Sand

  Dream, Thinking, Years

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

  Barbara Johnson

  Thinking, Age, Would Be

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.72, Zondervan

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• To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

  Elsa Maxwell

  New York, Party, People

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• It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Want Something, Stronger, That One Person

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• Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.

  Friedrich Engels

  Years, Victory, World

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Institut marksizma-leninizma (Moscow, Russia) (1957). “K. Marx and F. Engels on religion”

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• It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

  Sybille Bedford

  Revenge, War, Teeth

  Sybille Bedford (2017). “A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error”, p.143, New York Review of Books

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• I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.

  Jay Gould

  Sports, Horse, Children

  "The Life and Legend of Jay Gould". Book by Maury Klein, 1986.

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• During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of harmony with nature. At that time, because of the purity of the earth's aura, it was much easier to meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Sublime, Age

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us to 1000 ppm, is a world not merely of endless regional resource wars around the globe. It is a world with dozens of Darfurs. It is a world of a hundred Katrinas, of countless environmental refugees

  Joseph J. Romm

  War, Carbon Cycle, Environmental

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• The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.

  Barbara Bergmann

  War, Book, Two

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• ... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Two, I've Learned, Percent

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• some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from wounds inflicted on their bodies and their spirit. Sixty-three million souls in Vietnam are still suffering from their 'victory.

  Le Ly Hayslip

  War, Soul, Suffering

  Le Ly Hayslip (2012). “When Heaven & Earth Change Places”, p.541, Doubleday

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• When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Kids, Helping Others, Thinking

  Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 16, 2012.

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• Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry had their music, and it was about a hundred years ago given the name "Folk music".

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Years, Names

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Book, Vocabulary

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• one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

  Susan Jacoby

  Past, Rights, Years

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• I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.

  Louis Riel

  Fighting, Greatness, Two

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• Take it from me: no matter how few or how many children you have, or how little or how much money you make, your expenses are going to exceed your income by approximately a hundred dollars a month.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Family, Children, Dollars

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1982). “Up a Family Tree”, G K Hall & Company

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