“You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, traveling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abscesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say "yes."” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldYearsChildrenSaidTwoHomeCareLawMotherDiesHouseEasyTalkingCostHundredYears AgoSightCleanAverageAvailableMedicalMilesBunchChildbirthJerusalemMaking People HappyMedical CareDentalSquires Author:Terry Pratchett
“People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.” PeopleArtMadeFilmFiveLowsHundredBudgets Author:Roger Corman
“Part of the kick of making people laugh was doing something different. We were a rare breed - spotting one of us was like pinning a space alien, or abdominal snowman. There were maybe a hundred stand-ups in the whole country when I was doing it.” PeopleDifferentCountryWholeSpaceLaughingHundredAliensKicksMaking People LaughSnowmanSpace AliensAbdominals Author:Lenny Bruce
“It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.” PeopleIfsIdeasFormMillionsEconomicCenturyDespairHundredSocialismNew Ideas20th CenturyStagnation Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.” PeopleFirstsHas BeensNightSongFrontsThousandSingingHundredFirst TimeScaredAustraliaPanicVersusRugbyNew ZealandAnthemPanic AttacksNational AnthemSinging The National AnthemAustralia And New Zealand Author:Hugh Jackman
“In a way, it's like the photographer always has his vision of me. The pictures that I'm known for are not really my image, they're always the photographer's vision of me. I can look a hundred different ways, but what people see of me in pictures is not really my image.” PeopleWayLooksI CanDifferentKnownVisionHundredPhotographerDifferent Ways Author:Kate Moss
“You know, where I come from, an antique, to be called an antique, it has to be at least a hundred years old. That's a law: before you can call something an antique, it has to be a hundred years old. In L.A., something that's been around for a couple of weeks is an antique. It's true! People are like, Look at this old-fashioned iPod. Look at this! It's the size of a man's hand! Ha ha ha ha. Back then-back then, people thought Mel Gibson was just acting crazy. It was a very different time.” PeopleKnowsMenYearsLooksDifferentHandsLawActingWeekCrazyCoupleHundredSizeOld FashionedIpodsAntiquesDifferent TimesTrue People Author:Craig Ferguson
“Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.” PeopleYearsFiveHundredEmptyMars Author:Ray Bradbury
“London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.” PeopleYearsProblemNextLinesFiveHappenedCarTenSolutionsHundredLondon Author:Terry Pratchett
“I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In battle I look at things first in terms of people, second in terms of strategies or casualties... To tell a story, you don't photograph one hundred dead civilians to prove there were one hundred dead civilians. You photograph one dead civilian with an expression on his face that says, This is what it's like if you're a dead civilian in Vietnam.” PeopleIfsTryingFirstsLooksHeartStoriesFacesTermExpressionBattleProveHundredCamerasStrategyPhotographVietnamCiviliansCasualties Author:Horst Faas
“What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” PeopleIfsGivingEnjoyHundredVanityGenerosity Author:Mother Teresa
“It is really appropriate to call Jesus the word because God spoke him into existence through dozens probably a hundred different people over a four thousand year period of time. The Holy Spirit took these words and impregnated Mary.” PeopleYearsDifferentSpiritJesusExistenceFourPeriodsHolyThousandHundredHoly SpiritAppropriateSpokesDozenMaryThousand YearsDifferent Peoples Author:Andrew Wommack
“The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken but not destroyed. On the other hand the people who were living in the miserable urban slums, huge numbers of them, they were devastated. Maybe a couple hundred thousand were killed. How come they were living there? They were living there because of-it goes back to the French colonial system-but in the past century, they were living there because of US policies, consistent policies.” PeopleHandsPastNumbersClassCenturyPolicyHugeCoupleThousandHundredHarmDestroyedMiserableHillsConsistentWealthyElitesUrbanCatastropheEarthquakesHaitiDevastatedSlumsHuge Numbers Author:Noam Chomsky
“When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're living closer to the margin. They don't have any of the false sense of invulnerability that Americans have. People from developing countries also feel that it's their right, if you're talking in terms of justice, to use fossil fuels like we did for a hundred years to get rich. It's hard for them to give up that vision.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingFeelsYearsCountryHardUseTermJusticeTalkingVisionRichDangerGiving UpHundredChinaDevelopingFuelFossilsMarginsGet RichFossil FuelDeveloping CountriesInvulnerability Author:Bill McKibben
“My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.” PeopleSixHundredTownsStoresGroceriesGrocery Stores Author:PJ Harvey
“If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?” PeopleIfsBodyPoliticalHoursTalkingToo MuchHundredTradeCongressLawyerFiftyYield Author:Thomas Jefferson
“I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.” PeopleIdeasFrontsSingingHundredHallsConcertsOperaPrivilegedStadiumsMillennium Author:Katherine Jenkins
“But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!” PeopleWorldYearsLooksTwoRealityTodayUsedThreeDifferencesStrangeHorrorLaughterHundredUsed To BeMore TimePassagesWorld TodayPresent DayClumsyDay Life Author:Anton Chekhov
“Even if a hundred ton boulder should fall, I would be safe! When I say this, everyone laughs and wonders how. No need to try to stop it, just move out of the way. You do not have a problem if you do not try to take it on yourself. Most people suffer because they try to take upon themselves things which they do not need to.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsShouldTryingProblemWould BeMovingSufferingFallWonderLaughingSafeHundredBoulders Author:Koichi Tohei
“You have a lot of educating to do hip-hop wise in Europe. When you tour, when you go out there, most of the people that come see you at the venue listen to a lot of different kinds of music, not only hip-hop; they're not heads. From time to time you're going to do a little concert in front of three or four hundred people that are only hip-hop heads and they're going to understand and know all about the gimmicks and the swagger but the rest of the people are just regular European people that listen to pop [or] rock & roll.” PeopleKnowsKindLittlesDifferentThreeWiseFourRocksFrontsHundredEuropeHip HopPopsHipsHopsConcertsDifferent KindsVenuesSwaggerGimmicksDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:K-Maro
“I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.” PeopleFirstsMadeRememberThreePoorMonthsHundredDollarsScriptsRadioChecksFiftyCashThree Months Author:Rod Serling
“I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any single line that I've written. But just that they can say, "Oh, he was a writer." That's sufficiently an honored position for me.” PeopleWantYearsCareAbleRememberLinesWrittenPositionHundredDon't CareI Don't CareHonoredRemember MeSingle Line Author:Rod Serling
“Every time I meet the CEO of a record label I tell them how they did it in the seventies because they want to know. I tell them, "Sign a hundred people! Throw it against the wall and see which ones stick!" And they frown and say, "Oh, we can't do that!" and they start mumbling about demographics and this and that.” PeopleKnowsWantRecordsWallHundredSticksLabelsCeoSeventiesDemographicsRecord Labels Author:Tony Visconti
“It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians - not just Catholics, but Protestants, you name it, all kinds of Christians - a hundred other religions, living side by side. And the kind of personal religion that people end up practicing is a bizarre concoction of ritual drawn from each other. So everybody ends up celebrating everyone else's festivals.” PeopleKindEndsChristianNamesSidesStreetsHundredIndiaBasesCatholicAll KindsCelebrateRitualBizarreFestivalsProtestants Author:Anita Rau Badami
“People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.” PeopleMovingThreeEnergyWaterEconomyMovementWindHundredTownsFuelBritainTransitionFossilsFossil FuelMoving AwaySolar PowerWind PowerWater Power Author:Satish Kumar
“Mac [Barnett] and I prank each other during our presentation. We show baby pictures of each other looking completely ridiculous. I can't believe the frilly shirt that I'm in, and Mac's wearing a sailor suit and playing a toy piano. That's a perfect example of a good prank, where we have three hundred people literally laughing in our faces, three hundred kids at every assembly. And it feels really good. It's really fun.” PeopleFeelsBelieveI CanShowsKidsFacesThreeFunPerfectLaughingExampleBabyHundredRidiculousSuitsPianoShirtsToysPresentationAssemblySailorMacsPranksBaby Pictures Author:Jory John
“A conversation with you is a different thing than projecting to a couple hundred people. It's bigger and more animated and it's on a bigger scope, but still in the heart, it's honestly me.” PeopleHeartStillsDifferentCoupleConversationHundredBiggerHonestlyDifferent ThingsScopeAnimated Author:Craig Finn
“I did my gospel record, but there was nothing really of it. Maybe a hundred people bought it. But it's one of those things on the internet that people find and they make into a big deal.” PeopleBigsDealsRecordsInternetHundredBig Deal Author:Katy Perry
“I definitely isolate, but I also always have people in front of me, and I have to be OK with that. I'm in a business where, on the set, you're around two hundred people every day, and if you're high on the call sheet, you sort of set the tone for the set. And you want people to feel appreciated, and you want to ask them how their kids are. You want to talk to people and invest in them and let them know that they're appreciated and heard. But then I do like to just kind of withdraw.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFeelsKindTwoKidsAsksHeardFrontsHundredToneSheetsAppreciated Author:Patricia Arquette
“Because you're running an enterprise with two hundred-odd people, and it's really your responsibility to keep it moving quickly. So you have to know what you're doing, do it, and move on.” PeopleKnowsTwoRunningMovingResponsibilityHundredOddEnterpriseKeep It Moving Author:William Monahan
“But the question is - are we deporting a couple hundred people for show or are we actually making a serious effort to remove everybody who's got a final order of removal? When I say enforcement theater, what I mean is a kind of pretend enforcement.” PeopleKindMeanShowsOrderEffortSeriousCoupleHundredTheaterFinalsRemoveEnforcementRemoval Author:Mark Krikorian
“We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago.” PeopleYearsDifferentMovingHumanityCultureSocialProcessPleasureImpossibleEconomicHundredYears AgoLifetimeEdgesBackgroundsTime TravelGlobalizationDifferent PlaceMarrying Author:Thomas Keating
“As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses and ancient subjects he chose represented virtues which were meant to inspire people. Then he went through a dark phase when he was listening to the sermons of Savonarola, who preached against the worldly pleasures of the Renaissance. But Botticelli's works live on, inspiring people to this day. Five hundred years after his death, he still has thousands of fans!” PeopleKnowsMenYearsStillsArtistDarkPleasureVirtueFiveFansSubjectsInspireHe ManListeningBirthHundredAncientThis DayGoddessPhasesWorldlySermonsRenaissanceVenusWorldly PleasuresBotticelli Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“My first wedding was 15 people at our condo. The second was maybe about a hundred people at this fabulous casino. And you know what? I have almost no pictures of the second one, because I put disposable cameras on the tables, because everyone said, "The best pictures are the most candid! The best pictures are the ones people just take!" So, I put disposable cameras on the tables, and guess what? There were so many kids there that those cameras were stomped on. I had so many pictures of the floor, of people's eyes, of someone's finger.” PeopleKnowsFirstsSaidEyeKidsHundredCamerasTablesFingersFabulousCasinosDisposableCandidBest Picture Author:Viola Davis
“I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.” PeopleTalkingMillionsFourThousandHundredBritainSixtyPublishers Author:John Gimlette
“Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this secret that has been going on for more than two hundred years. The intermarriage of the Indian and the African in America, for example, has been constant and thorough. Colin Powell tells us in his autobiography that he is Scotch, Irish, African, Indian, and British, but all we hear is that he is African.” PeopleWayYearsHas BeensTwoAmericaCultureSecretInfluenceExampleHundredConstantBritishIndianAutobiographyDescribingThoroughScotchIntermarriage Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Five-hundred years ago people were saying in manuscripts, "Can you believe these kids today?" They were saying that same phrase everyone says now. No one can believe the youth and what they're doing and how culture is going and how it might fall apart.” PeopleYearsBelieveMightKidsTodayFallCultureFiveYouthHundredYears AgoPhrasesFalling ApartManuscripts Author:Joel McHale
“At dusk the sunset is beautifully bright; at year's end the tangerines are even more fragrant. Therefore, at the end of their road, in their later years, enlightened people should be a hundred times more vital in spirit.” PeopleShouldYearsEndsSpiritHundredSunsetEnlightenedTaoismDuskTangerines Author:Zicheng Hong
“The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayKindDoeHappensFacesLawResultsDealsCarBrotherGoes OnTomorrowGayMarriedHundredFinancialBurdenAbsenceFavorsThings HappenAll KindsMy BrotherMy SisterElevenIn-lawsGay PeopleSister In LawFinancial Burden Author:Andrew Solomon
“I was on the set of the first Powers pilot, and an actor of color came up to me and said, "When I was a kid, my friends wouldn't let me play Batman or Superman, because I wasn't their color. But they would let me play Spider-Man. And that's the difference." And I realized I had heard this story a hundred times from different people, but I wasn't there in my head yet.” PeopleMenFirstsSaidDifferentPlayStoriesKidsActorsDifferencesHeardColorHundredMy FriendsLet MeI RealizedPilotsSpidersDifferent PeoplesSpider Man Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.” PeopleKnowsMenCountryFacesWhiteHundredWinterOur CountryIndian Author:Chief Joseph
“Even if I'm doing a show and there's five people in the audience and the sound system is terrible - I mean, it's been a while but I've certainly done those kind of shows where it's just every conceivable thing is against you - you still have music. It's still something that's real whether there's five people in the audience or a hundred thousand people in the audience. And that's always been there for me.” PeopleIfsKindMeanStillsRealDoneShowsSoundAudienceFiveTerribleThousandHundredSound Systems Author:Joan Osborne
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet.” PeopleYearsLooksBlackProductsRevolutionHealthyEatingHappeningsHundredYears AgoBlameFilledFatsDietsMexicanCornRiceBeansTransFast FoodPeppersChileHealthy DietBlame MeMexican FoodMexican Revolution Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory.” PeopleMenDifferentNumbersAcceptingGayPercentHundredSuitsLabelsInterpretationIllusory Author:Annie Lennox
“There is no question that a very large number of people have to move; you cannot live where the water comes over you. I have not heard one suggestion on how we are going to move one hundred million people out of low-lying areas and what countries would be willing to accept them.” PeopleCountryWould BeMovingLyingWaterNumbersAcceptingMillionsHeardWillingLowsHundredAreasOver YouSuggestionsLarge Numbers Author:Walter Munk
“This is going to be a difficult few hundred years. No matter what we do, we have to give up some of the advantages of the wealthy Western nations and help out people who are less fortunate. That is the key. I think we can do it if we have more compassion for one another.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingYearsMatterHelpingNationsDifficultCan DoCompassionKeysGiving UpHundredAdvantageNo Matter WhatWesternFortunateWealthyLess Fortunate Author:Walter Munk
“I haven't had surgery. I've had my teeth done, which was a massive insecurity for me. But I'm one hundred percent happy. It's difficult, not just for people in the media, but for everyone - young girls and boys - especially in high school.” PeopleDoneSchoolYoungGirlDifficultBoysMediaHavensPercentHundredHigh SchoolTeethInsecurityMassiveSurgeryBoy And Girl Author:Cher Lloyd
“I am thinking of actual cases of adolescents, lets say, who think they have five hundred friends, because there are five hundred people on their Facebook account. But these are the kind of friends whose relation to you is that if you say 'I bought a sandwich'; they say 'did it taste good?' You know, that's a kind of interaction, but very different to having a real friend, somebody who you can actually talk to.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsKindDifferentRealCasesFiveTasteHundredAccountsRelationInteractionReal FriendsSandwichesKinds Of Friends Author:Noam Chomsky
“People think its hard to travel to the airports. 9/11 has made our travel difficult, with the security laws and that. As far as comparing what we do to driving 3,000 miles a week, making fifty bucks a night, sometimes one hundred bucks a night, its a lot different. Guaranteed contracts, first class air fare, Hilton hotels in London, Champaign. Waddaya want? What more could you ask for!” PeopleThinkingWantFirstsMadeDifferentSometimesHardLawNightAsksDifficultClassAirWeekSecurityHundredLondonDrivingMilesCompareFiftyHotelContractsAirportsBucksFirst Class Author:Ric Flair