A Quotes
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“A hunch is your brain's way of taking a shortcut to the truth”
“A hundred and fifty points lost. That put Gryffindor in last place. In one night, they'd ruined any chance Gryffindor had had for the House Cup. Harry felt as though the bottom had dropped out of his stomach. How could they ever make up for this?
Harry didn't sleep all night. He could hear Neville sobbing into his pillow for what seemed like hours. Harry couldn't think of anything to say to comfort him. He knew Neville, like himself, was dreading the dawn. What would happen when the rest of Gryffindor found out what they'd done?”
Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Harry at Hogwarts (HARRY POTTER STICKER BOOKS) (Paperback) - Common
“A hundred and forty-four, twelve trays of twelve. Were 144 cupcakes enough for one day? There was no way of knowing. What if she'd made too many chocolate-orange and not enough lemon-lime? What if everyone wanted vanilla-coconut and nobody looked at the mocha? What if people hated the cream-cheese icing and only went for the ones topped with buttercream? Was Clongarvin ready for mascarpone frosting?”
Source: Semi-Sweet
“A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand.”
“A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today.”
Source: Selected works of Janusz Korczak
“A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.”
Source: Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story
“A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.”
Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey
“A hundred francs! Oh, dear me! It is worth millions of francs, my child. But my -- dealer -- here tells me that in fact a picture is worth only what someone will give for it. How much money do you have?"
Julia took out her purse and counted. "Four francs and twenty sous," she said, looking up at him sadly.
"Is that all the money you have in the world?"
She nodded.
"Then four francs and twenty sous it is.”
Source: The Dream of Scipio
“A hundred hajj won't make you holy, if your heart is ever cold and dead.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.”
Source: The Weight on Skin
“A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.”
Source: Sabriel
“A hundred men lived inside him, somehow managed to absorb all the contradictions, reincarnated many personalities, committed more crimes against himself, used dozens of names, and lost his name in the crowd.
He was struck by chaos, polished by randomly, wrestled with him and wrestled with it, wrestled with it until he tamed it, and he became its brother, friend, and son.”
Source: Zero Moment: Do not be afraid, this is only a passing novel and will end
“A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.”
“A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.”
“A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.”
Source: A Civil Campaign
“A hundred pages of me fighting the conformity of love for a boy I simply loved from the start. From the day I met his heart, to the day I had to let it go. I love you more than I planned, Harry.”
Source: Duplicity
“A hundred people is rather a large handful for the four of us to take on," Malcolm pointed out. "Do you have any ideas about how we're going to handle that task?" "Simple," Halt told him. "We'll surround them.”
“A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.”
“A hundred surviving paladins gathered in one line of gunners on our south wall: uniformed Texas Guard 3rd Brigade, blue leather vested TEXIANS, and volunteers in period clothes and hats. We watched the armored attack column that creaked its way forward toward us, a massive axis of evil.”
Source: Immigration Invasion! A Family Affair
“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”
Source: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time
“A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.”
Source: Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose
“A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.”
“A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.”
Source: Whiffs from Wild Meadows
“A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.”
Source: Letters and Addresses,
“A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I think they give a correct impression.”
Source: The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900-1931
“A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep,
And I could laugh; I am light and heavy:
Welcome.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.”
“A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.”
Source: When the cathedrals were white
“A hundred times. If not more. She was stunned and stunned again by them, and her love for them. How much had been lost? Never made it into her memory, never been captured in a photograph?”
Source: A Place for Us
“A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.”
Source: The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction
“A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.”
Source: The Last and the Lost
“A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.”
“A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.”
“A hundred years ago, Auguste Comte, … a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of.”
“A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.”
Source: Reuben, Reuben: A Novel
“A hundred years ago no one was silent or tongue-tied, as we are now, when death was in the room. They had not yet muzzled grief or banished it from daily life. Death was cultivated, watered like a plant. There was no need for whispering or mime.”
Source: Being Dead
“A hundred years ago, people had perfectly understood that you could die of a broken heart, now they thought you were making a fuss about nothing…Certain kinds of suffering are like radiation: they cause furious growth and mutation of the inner self.”
Source: A Vicious Circle
“A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing.”
“A hundred years ago, this City[...]'s energy production, its food and fuel, came from all over the world, often traveling thousands of miles. People used energy just to ship more energy to the places that needed it. When you’re high on fossil fuel fumes, I guess almost anything can make sense.”
Source: Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
“A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of.”
“A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all.”
Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
“A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?”
“A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.”
“A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.”
“A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.”
“A hundred years from now, folks will look back at this time period and think, Wow, what an incredible moment it must’ve been to be alive. Syrian refugees, human trafficking, climate change—the whole world is out there waiting to be saved. And you’ll have a grand adventure doing it, even if only in what you consider a small, locally based way. You know, you already have as a teacher.”
Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“A Hundred Years From Now Well a hundred years from now I won't be crying A hundred years from now I won't be blue And my heart would have forgotton she broke ever vow I won't care a hundred years from now Oh, it seem like yesterday you told me You couldn't live without my love somehow Now that you're with another it breaks my heart somehow I won't care a hundred years from now * Refrain Now do you recall the night sweetheart you promised Another's kiss you never would allow That's all in the past dear it didn't seem to last I won't care a hundred years from now * Refrain”
“A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.”