Billions Quotes · Page 13

I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take…

— Frederick Lenz

There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it…

— Albert Einstein

With rap music, there are billions and billions of samples that are uncleared that people have never been bothered about on an…

— Girl Talk

For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies…

— Robert Lanza

Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won't feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country.

— Li Peng

Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a…

— Terence McKenna

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

— Romain Rolland

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he…

— Steven Wright

In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more…

— Eric Schlosser

Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are…

— Ravida Din

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I…

— Guy Kawasaki

A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches…

— Tom Hanks

[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity…

— Umberto Eco

I have no absolute right to my wealth; it comes from my ancestors, my parents and from the billions of people who…

— Robert Muller

This sounds crazy, I know, but you can make a billion dollars - very few people do - but you can make…

— Henry Blodget

So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands…

— Richard P. Feynman

I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and…

— Pope John Paul II

“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally.…

— Michael Finkel

Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human…

— Karl-Henrik Robert

A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does…

— Jaron Lanier

It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny…

— Michio Kaku

Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth…

— Warren Buffett

The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound…

— Edward Jay Epstein

The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.

— John P. Kotter

1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies.

— Jean Ziegler

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to…

— Bill Gates

The largest portion of our state budget is Health and Human Services. It will grow by approximately $500 million. A half a…

— Mitt Romney

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

— Tony Hoare

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

— Steve Jobs

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders…

— Daniel Quinn

The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

— Todd Akin

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.

— W. Richard Stevens

Finally we got some good news about the economy. Barack Obama got $800 billion to rescue the economy. All I can say…

— David Letterman

13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

— Frank Oski

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

— John Pilger

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

— Adam McKay

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most…

— Chuck Palahniuk

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

— Walter E. Williams

I truly believe that America's greatness and billions and billions of dollars of our wealth flows away because China doesn't treat us…

— Chris Matthews