Alas Quote by Margaret Millar Download Open image “People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.” — Margaret Millar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alas Data Ideas Impressed People Statistics
Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things. — Ebbe Skovdahl Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie. — George W. Buck Copy Share Image
I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual. — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions. — Federico Pena Copy Share Image
Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become… — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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