Small Number Quotes

78 Small Number quotes by 70 unique authors

I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules. — Penn Jillette
My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole… — Paul Lynde
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. — James Madison
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and… — Tom Stoppard
There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of… — James Surowiecki
I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan. — Fred Thompson
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part. — Voltaire
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number… — Paul Bowles
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you… — Mary Doria Russell
She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew… — James Joyce
We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical… — Timothy Leary
Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any… — John Stuart Mill
A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to… — Harold Laski
A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary. — Raymond Kelly
A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large… — Leon Krier
Most large media firms make outsized investments to acquire and market a small number of titles with strong hit potential, and bank on their sales… — Anita Elberse
People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that only… — Stanley B. Prusiner
For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number. — Malcolm Gladwell
I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks. — Mitt Romney
The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems, which… — August Krogh
I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again. — Colin Trevorrow
While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia… — Tran Duc Luong
Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however,… — Richard Curtis
You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of… — Meg Whitman

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