Small Number Quotes

78 quotes by 70 authors

Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about… — Lawrence Block
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up… — Eleanor Smeal
Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number… — Ernest Renan
The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London. — Charles Clarke
If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will… — Edward Bernays
We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who… — Edward Bernays
Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal… — Johannes Gutenberg
God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books, which… — Johannes Gutenberg
The history of atomism is one of reductionism â€“ the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing… — Leon M. Lederman
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the… — Samuel Johnson
Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many… — Bent Larsen
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals. — Paul Cezanne
Holiness is not reserved for a small number of exceptional persons. It is for everyone. It is the Lord who brings us to holiness when… — Pope John Paul II
Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that most… — James Surowiecki
With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by… — Vincent de Paul
To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that… — Pope Leo XIII
While reading writers of great formulatory power â€” Henry James, Santayana, Proust â€” I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to… — Joseph Epstein
People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is… — Roger Ebert
There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have… — Richard Perle
We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that… — Ann Veneman

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