Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ricardo

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

William Faulkner

Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Laurence Sterne

For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.

John Basilica

for every one that is hurt or killed there are a hundred more that are willing to sign up and be policemen and to join the new Iraqi army.

Nasser Judeh

It is untrue that over one hundred people were arrested.

Daren Kagasoff

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

Xue Chongde

As I recall, we could have over a hundred adoptions within a month (at that time).

Andrzej Gaska

The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

Charles Dickens

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

Charles Dickens

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Charles Dickens

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

Charles Dickens

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Bertrand Russell

All religions are both harmful and untrue.

Eleanor Clift

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

Maggie Stiefvater

She couldn't make it untrue.

Meister Eckhart

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.