100 Countries Quotes

#1. I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

Elton John

#2. My only role in the opening of the schools has been to suggest and encourage opening them. But it is impossible for there to be a [central authority] controlling the schools. They are in more than 100 countries, and there must be many different companies that have opened and run them.

Fethullah Gulen

#3. I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.

Kenneth Rogoff

#4. As we reinvent our life endlessly we should open our minds to the infinite possibilities that do exist.

Steven Redhead

#5. Ridicule, nominally amusing but really an expression of hostility, was the favourite weapon - the worst possible, short of actual cruelty, in dealing with young people.

Bertrand Russell

#6. If we take into account that women have had the right to vote only for some 100 years - in some countries even less - and that we have already won seats in governments or presidential offices, I understand that men look at this rise with some anxiety.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#7. The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#8. At HBO, my leadership had to inspire and gain the respect of employees in a large company with over 100 external business relationships in dozens of countries.

James Costos

#9. When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

Nancy Lublin

#10. I'll dissolve when the rain pours in,
When the nightmares take me,
I will scream with the howling wind,
'Cause it's a bitter world and I'd rather dream.

Owl City

#11. I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Sylvester Stallone

#12. Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

Brian Tracy

#13. Those who claim to be shamans there (Old East-Block Countries) today are just trying to pick up those remnants that they can remember; or shards they can find; as there has been no practice of traditional shamanism in those Communist countries for over 100 years.

Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls

#14. I believe that we are at or near the apex of a great civilization ... In 50-100 years, if we're a poor third to some countries in Asia, I wouldn't be surprised. If I had to bet, the part of the world that will do best will be Asia.

Charlie Munger

#15. The U.S. incarceration rate is the world's highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in 100 American adults is behind bars.61 Some U.S. states spend as much on their prisons as they do on their universities.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#16. Sometimes, it seemed who could do the impossible simply because she didn't stop to think about how impossible it really was.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.

Bill Gates

#18. The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.

Erick Erickson

#19. What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

Hans Rosling

#20. In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

Iveta Radicova

#21. Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

Cyril Connolly

#22. I'm a huge Ira Glass fan; I'm a huge fan of radio in general.

Jenji Kohan

#23. We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.

Hugo Chavez

#24. His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.

Sylvia Day

#25. When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.

Constance Baker Motley