Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It's hard to put it in perspective right now. I'm starting to feel a little emotional about what's going to happen Friday… — Scottie Pippen Copy Share Image
In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one.… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Obviously Pakistan and the U.S. are very different countries, but we have common geopolitical interests in preventing communist take over in Afghanistan… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success.… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
BSP gives tickets to Muslim candidates in areas where they are in good numbers so that they can enter Parliament and Assembly.… — Mayawati Copy Share Image
Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I have been an accomplice to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me. I said… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one… — Michael Angarano Copy Share Image
As president, I will ramp up enforcement of trade rules by appointing a new chief trade prosecutor and tripling the number of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are.… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
Professional or amateur, athletes want to see progress. We like to see numbers and metrics improve, and when you have deeper insight… — Spencer Paysinger Copy Share Image
I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even… — David Frum Copy Share Image
When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There were long stretches where each of us was engaged in a private world of rapidly shifting vignettes. Always I was overwhelmed… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image