Numbers Quotes · Page 99

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

— Nicholas Eberstadt

If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender.

— Bill Hicks

I try my best to stay focussed on quality over quantity when it comes to everything related to my work, including the…

— Jonita Gandhi

The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system.

— Edward S. Herman

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want…

— Patricia Highsmith

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell…

— Anton Chekhov

I think that I'm just on such a mission with my career that you don't really get to stop and think about…

— Carli Lloyd

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

— Heinz Pagels

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of…

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in…

— Stephen Marche

Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons…

— Will Sheff

One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which…

— Howard Whitley Eves

Hardly anybody thinks about typing in their social security number as ID. Hardly anybody pays attention to the myriad of security cameras.…

— Remi Aubuchon

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the…

— James Levine

I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of…

— Jack Bowman

Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do…

— Brian Chesky

When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be…

— Charles Lyell

Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it…

— Randall Jarrell

I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;…

— Samuel Johnson

I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper…

— Paul Halmos

“A good example of the archetypal ideas which the archetypes produce are natural numbers or integers. With the aid of the integers…

— K. V. Laurikainen

And just as you supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and…

— Anonymous

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the…

— Saint Augustine

Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is…

— Gary Holder-Winfield

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them…

— Michel de Montaigne

Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.

— Eric Edmeades

I went to a number of women's groups and said: 'Can you help us find folks,' and they brought us whole binders…

— Mitt Romney

Most of my songs are emotional romantic numbers, so they are likely to suit a few situations in films.

— Ammy Virk

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

— Kobe Bryant

Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!

— Stephen Keshi

How many numbers are in the alphabet... Exactly because that's how many fucks I give!

— Marcus Ybarra

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.

— David Edward Kirk

As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.

— Susana Martinez

Looking at these numbers, what do they tell anyone who's got any common sense? Everything you're seeing is just too little, too…

— Richard Harris

In every aspect of our lives we talk about numbers. We talk about cars in this way, houses, jobs.

— Celine Song

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade…

— Branch Rickey

Number one, [Hillary Clinton] is weak. Number two, she has a hair trigger and it's just the opposite with me.

— Donald Trump