Arithmetic is the death of story.

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

— Helen Humphreys

“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the…

— Neil Gaiman

“...to understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the speaker for the dead would have to explain their…

— Orson Scott Card

They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way…

— Ann Brashares

“Death is another story. I will never make a joke about death. It is beyond my powers.”

— Mario Puzo

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

— Tom Stoppard

“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity…

— G. Arnell Williams

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting,…

— Joan Collins

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

— David Hilbert

The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow,…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

— Conrad Black

Arithmetic has began to totter.

— Gottlob Frege

I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we…

— Jeff Merkley

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

— Clifton Fadiman