#hundred

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty. ↗

— William Odom

#allied #every #germany #had #hundred

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#ambiguity #between #country #hundred #japan

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#attention #attract #big #big idea #buy

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so. ↗

— William Labov

#been #dialects #hundred #studied #well

After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#another #asked #country #family #great

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it. ↗

— Robert Plant

#die #equal #financial #give #hundred

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ↗

— Plato

#among #born #even #found #hero

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. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#ahead #already #assertion #been #creative

When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks. ↗

— David Spade

#bucks #country #fly #gig #hundred

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#hundred #near #scholars #school #three