“As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska. This is the kind of thing that is is gratifying to a President, but to be on a solitary stream with good friends, with a fly rod in your hand, and to have a successfull or even an unsuccessful day-they're all successful-is an even greater delight.” KindHandsAblePresidentMillionsSuccessfulGreaterSeaHundredAreasRiversFishesDelightBoatStreamsLakesFishingWildernessPensSolitaryGood FriendStrokesAlaskaAcresUnsuccessful Author:Jimmy Carter
“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.” TwoTogetherFightingHalfGreaterRightsLandGreatnessUnderstoodHundredTreatedFortyAcresSmallness Author:Louis Riel
“Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as if the room within were aflame.” IfsYearsNightSidesRoomsNumbersGreaterHundredWindowShiningPalaces Book:Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967 Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967
“I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better.” GivingReasonMomentsBlackForgetNumbersGreaterBattleSucceedHundredDecadesResistanceConclusionCrushRepresentativesForget ItBrutalityReactionariesClergyBourgeoisieExecuting Author:Vladimir Lenin
“I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.” KnowsIdeasGreaterTalentMinesHundredDeterminationGave Up Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.” PeopleIfsMayWholeOrderNationsEnjoyNumbersGreaterShareProduceTenHundredLaborContraryAcquireLabourCivilizedSavagesLowestPoorestIndustriousWorkmenFrugal Author:Adam Smith
“The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.” MenRunningOrderGreaterCreatingHundredInferiorsIntrigueCalamity Author:Wang Yangming
“Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will.” IfsWayI CanIdeasEyeSpiritualGreaterDevelopmentThousandCapableHundredInfiniteInstrumentsInstantBowsDiscipleGlancesGraciousEmbodimentVivekananda Author:Swami Vivekananda
“If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.” IfsHandsBigsFormUniverseStarsMillionsGreaterPlanetsThousandHundredRateSizeExpansionBangsStars And Planets Author:Stephen Hawking
“I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred.” YearsIdeasFiveGreaterHundredYears AgoPerfectionIntentionCuriosityBest Intentions Book:Sever Source: Sever