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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.
It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
I love cookies baking. During the winter, they have these candles that smell like cookies, and I always buy like a hundred of them.
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.
For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it's still even around.
I am a hundred-percent Indian traditionalist! I am not "playing anything" - that is for the media to be able to say what I am doing.
I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one.
I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.
Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.
I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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.
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.
I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!
Great brand, no resume - no problem. Great resume, no brand? Welcome to position #347 of the stack of five hundred equally great resumes
Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen
A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.
The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.
Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.
Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.
People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.
I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.
You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.
That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?
I had this scholarship, two pairs of tight jeans, and a couple of hundred extra dollars, and I showed up in Oregon and went to school there.
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.
There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
Every hundred year, mother make baby like Iron Sheik, Michael Jordan and the Jesus. Only one chance to prove you are the real in a lifetime.