Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious,… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact. — Osbert Lancaster Copy Share Image
It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the… — Otto Ohlendorf Copy Share Image
The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“That’s how the Law of Large Numbers works: not by balancing out what’s already happened, but by diluting what’s already happened with… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
Our society is not held together primarily by law and its enforcement but most importantly by those who voluntarily obey the unenforceable… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Young Shia who have been brought up with nothing, who are pretty anarchic, pretty dangerous. In 2004 when they came close to… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“when people are given a moderate number of options (4 to 6) rather than a large number (20 to 30), they are… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The other way is the multiverse way. That says that maybe the universe we are in is one of a very large… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the… — George Packer Copy Share Image
What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Due to the major demographic changes we have gone through in the last few years in this country, we will be a… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call… — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
Undocumented people have been targeted for years now. Even under the Obama administration, there was a really large number of deportations of… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The essence of effective portfolio construction is the use of a large number of poorly correlated assets. — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
With their charm and legendary sense of humor, the British directly or indirectly paved the way for a large number of European… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame,… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen -… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist. — James Garner Copy Share Image
If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary… — Frans Johansson Copy Share Image
A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
What we're going to see is the emergence of the lone wolf rather than the planning of large numbers of people to… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image