Numbers Quotes · Page 48

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office…

— Julia Child

Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

— Warren Buffett

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the…

— B. F. Skinner

Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

— Sam Levenson

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

— Richard Stengel

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

— Joseph Addison

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I'm a little jaded about change actually happening, I'll admit. The numbers are exactly the same as they were two decades ago,…

— Melissa Rosenberg

The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of…

— Faye Wattleton

In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two… That's why my place in the…

— Billie Jean King

I have almost the same number of days left as Barack Obama has in the White House. So we are going to…

— Marco Rubio

Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations…

— Pauline Oliveros

At that time, 73 and 74, I became aware that there were a number of us making instruments. Max Eastley was a…

— David Toop

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We wanted a musical number that would capture the exhilaration of being out on a boat as they were and sailing with…

— John Musker

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace.…

— Howard Wolpe

As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or…

— Chris Bohjalian

One citizen, or a few, may be powerless if all the rest are determined to benefit from the imposition of unjust supranational…

— Thomas Pogge

You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened…

— Noam Chomsky

And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession…

— Tobias Dantzig

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

— Daniel Tammet

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

— Jane Addams

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers…

— Donna Shalala

Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have…

— Jaclyn Moriarty

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly…

— Margaret Spellings

I couldn't care less what my numbers say at the end of the year. I just want to win games for the…

— Alex Bregman

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had…

— Paul Begala

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the…

— Ayn Rand

In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal…

— Michael Craig-Martin

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.

— Thomas Piketty

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

— James Clerk Maxwell

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

— Nicole Ari Parker

If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.

— William Easterly

If I find God's mobile number, I wouldn't call Him, that would be too expensive!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in…

— Edward Thorndike