Numbers Quotes · Page 69

Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.

— Audrey MacLean

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

— Jane Smiley

Tolle numerum omnibus rebus et omnia pereunt.Take from all things their number and all shall perish.

— Isidore of Seville

The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew…

— Bill Goldberg

I think there must be safety in numbers. If you f - up enough times, they forget which one you really did.…

— Willie Nelson

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

— George A. Sheehan

In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true…

— Norman MacCaig

I was fine with numbers, but it took me a longer time to grasp simple things like spellings.

— James William Middleton

So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make…

— Terence McKenna

I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In…

— Kumi Naidoo

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done?…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Actually, Congress just did pass a tax plan like Donald Trump's.They passed a tax plan which some Democrats voted for, significant number…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount…

— Michelle Obama

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those…

— Christopher Cross

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great…

— Christopher Meloni

When I think about defending Kyrie, I think about respect. His shooting percentages were close to 50/40/90 as a 19-year-old rookie. When…

— C. J. McCollum

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very…

— Jane Austen

The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like…

— Joe Hill

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often…

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so…

— Alfred North Whitehead

A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to…

— Oveta Culp Hobby

Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments.…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and…

— Henry Knox

The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and…

— Samuel L. Jackson

World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

— Adolf Hitler

In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.

— Sam Altman

I adore having people over to my home. My number one reason I love that is because I love to see people…

— Evangeline Lilly

If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.

— Rickey Henderson

The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that…

— George Saunders

Obviously my role is shooter, trying to take my numbers to another level from that perspective.

— Joe Harris

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely…

— Hans Rosling

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

— Denis Waitley

I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

— Hill Harper

It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.

— Barack Obama

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my…

— Richard Simmons

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

— William Raspberry

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Yo, you don't think you're going under? I got a bullet with your name, your address, and your phone number.

— Kool G Rap

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's…

— Patricia Ireland

“To my mind, modern life just offers too many numbers that we're supposed to keep track of.”

— Ann Aguirre