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Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
"September,", p. 413
1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
Context: This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Context: If the current polls are reliable... Nixon will be re-elected by a huge majority of Americans who feel he is not only more honest and more trustworthy than George McGovern, but also more likely to end the war in Vietnam. The polls also indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the Youth Vote. And that he might carry all fifty states... This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose... Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian
“A drop of ink may make a million think.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Anaïs Nin book The Diary of Anaïs Nin
The Diary of Anaïs Nin , Volume One 1931-1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“Human beings are millions of things in one day.”
Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down
Source: A Long Way Down
“you just took on five million years of evolution again”
Scott Westerfeld book Specials
Source: Specials
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Source: Poems
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
"Overseas Financial Policy in Stage III" (unpublished memo distributed to the British Cabinet on 15 May 1945, in Collected Writings volume 24, p. 258).
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
Variant reported in Time magazine, Monday, Feb. 17, 1947
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
As quoted in The Economist (13 February 1982), p. 11
Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.”
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
“America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
“If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.”
Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
As quoted in The Quotable Will Rogers (2006) by Joseph H. Carter
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“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Si 50 millions de personnes disent une bêtise, c'est quand même une bêtise. <br class="br">As quoted in Listening and Speaking : A Guide to Effective Oral Communication https://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&hl=es&id=0CcWYwjwyRgC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=foolish (1954) by Ralph G. Nichols and Thomas R. Lewis, p. 74 <br class="br">Also misattributed to Bertrand Russell, by Laurence J. Peter, in The Peter Prescription : How To Make Things Go Right (1976), but he subsequently attributed to France in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977). <br class="br">Derived variant: If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie. <br class="br">W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook (1949), entry for 1901 <br class="br">Variant: If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Foreword to Radio Replies Vol. 1, (1938) page ix
Variant: There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church.
“Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
“Angel, a crowd of millions couldn’t hide you from me. I found you once. I’ll always find you.”
Sylvia Day (1973) American writer
Source: Entwined with You
David Foster Wallace book The Pale King
Source: The Pale King (2011)
Context: "Maybe it's not metaphysics. Maybe it's existential. I'm talking about the individual US citizen's deep fear, the same basic fear that you and I have and that everybody has except nobody ever talks about it except existentialists in convoluted French prose. Or Pascal. Our smallness, our insignificance and mortality, yours and mine, the thing that we all spend all our time not thinking about directly, that we are tiny and at the mercy of large forces and that time is always passing and that every day we've lost one more day that will never come back and our childhoods are over and our adolescence and the vigor of youth and soon our adulthood, that everything we see around us all the time is decaying and passing, it's all passing away, and so are we, so am I, and given how fast the first forty-two years have shot by it's not going to be long before I too pass away, whoever imagined that there was a more truthful way to put it than "die," "pass away," the very sound of it makes me feel the way I feel at dusk on a wintry Sunday--... And not only that, but everybody who knows me or even knows I exist will die, and then everybody who knows those people and might even conceivably have even heard of me will die, and so on, and the gravestones and monuments we spend money to have pour in to make sure we're remembered, these'll last what-- a hundred years? two hundred?-- and they'll crumble, and the grass and insects my decomposition will go to feed will die, and their offspring, or if I'm cremated the trees that are nourished by my windblown ash will die or get cut down and decay, and my urn will decay, and that before maybe three of four generations it will be like I never existed, not only will I have passed away but it will be like I was never here, and people in 2104 or whatever will no more think of Stuart A. Nichols Jr. than you or I think of John T. Smith, 1790 to 1864, of Livingston, Virginia, or some such. That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine, in fact, probably that's why the manic US obsession with production, produce, produce, impact the world, contribute, shape things, to help distract us from how little and totally insignificant and temporary we are... The post-production capitalist has something to do with the death of civics. But so does fear of smallness and death and everything being on fire."
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author
Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Source: On Beauty
“But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late.”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil
“Tyrants conduct monologues above a million solitudes. —ALBERT CAMUS, THE REBEL”
Clive James book Cultural Amnesia
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
“I feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years.”
Breece D'J Pancake (1952–1979) American writer
Source: The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
“We mortal millions live alone.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
“The sum of a million facts is not the truth.”
William Manchester (1922–2004) (April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) American author, journalist and historian
Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor
Source: Me of Little Faith
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-02-tyson-saraceno_x.htm
On himself
Carl L. Becker (1873–1945) American historian
The Eve of the Revolution (1918)
Dagobert von Gerhardt (1831–1910) German writer
To the ancients the hearth was sacred; beside the hearth they erected their lares and household-gods. Let us also hold the hearth sacred, where the conscientious German housewife slowly sacrifices her life, to keep the home comfortable, the table well supplied, and the family healthy."
"von Gerhardt, using the pen-name Gerhard von Amyntor in", A Commentary to the Book of Life. Quote taken from August Bebel, Woman and Socialism, Chapter X. Marriage as a Means of Support.
Abdullah II of Jordan (1962) King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Address to the European Parliament (2015)
Clay Shirky (1964) American technology writer
Source: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008), p. 139-140
David Draiman (1973) American singer and songwriter
Disturbed's David Draiman Offers 'Solution' To Illegal Music Downloading http://www.webcitation.org/64oENbO3B, Blabbermouth.net, 11 July 2003)
Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872) British writer
Israel in Egypt, Book the First (1861)
Hans Fritzsche (1900–1953) German Nazi official
To Leon Goldensohn, April 6, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”
Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
Variant: Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 253).
Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) British writer
The Growth of Love http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6639&poem=510395, Sonnet 6 (1876). <br class="br">Poetry
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) British political economist
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
“How can we measure the effects if we can't even count the dead to the nearest million?”
Brian Hayes (scientist) (1900) American scientist, columnist and author
Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 5, Statistics Of Deadly Quarrels, p. 105
Pat Condell (1949) Stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality
"In Jesus' name" (25 April 2007) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qZO2u-jDNpQ <br class="br">2007
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Steve Jobs, "Steve Jobs in 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/steve-jobs-in-1994-the-rolling-stone-interview-20110117 June 16, 1994, reprinted in Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, January 17, 2011 <br class="br">1990s, Rolling Stone interview (1994)
Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) First Prime Minister of Singapore
Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s