Number Quotes
4034 Number quotes by 2939 unique authors
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He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must immediately…
— David Hume
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When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was…
— Unknown Author
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Think I'll roll another number for the road
— Neil Young
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About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that I made some…
— Robert Kennedy
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I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and…
— Michael Gove
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Yesterday, I tried to call Northwest Airlines' customer-service line over a couple of hours. I couldn't get through. The recording said, "Due to a high…
— Unknown Author
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The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are…
— C.S. Lewis
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The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.
— Gaston Caperton
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Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.
— Jacqueline Susann
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years…
— Garry Kasparov
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How much freedom I have depends on the number and nature of my options. And that, in turn, depends both on the rules of the…
— Unknown Author
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Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described…
— Ludwig von Mises
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I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number…
— Sloane Crosley
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A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to know it's there.…
— Jacqueline Susann
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The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a…
— Herbert Read
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We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people…
— Greg Ginn
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The way to get to the top of the heap in terms of developing original research is to be a fool, because only fools keep…
— Unknown Author
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The Negro. The South. These are details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other men (and in…
— John Howard Griffin
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Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.
— Gerald Jay Sussman
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Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than practically anyone I…
— Joseph Weizenbaum
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In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our…
— Vera Rubin
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A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never…
— Alasdair Gray
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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
— John Forbes Nash
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Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me…
— Herb Adderley
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