Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

Cindy Margolis

I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up.

Andy Rooney

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

Andy Rooney

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

Andy Stanley

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

Ann Richards

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Aneurin Bevan

Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.

Anant Agarwal

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

We have a system that's been in place for 70 years. It works, ... but get the numbers right.

We are in discussions with a number of people,

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Richard Bach

To me, one of the most profound questions we can ask is: "So what?" And so what if there's an indefinite number of worlds with alternate "us-es" in them? The "so what," to me, comes alive when I ask myself: "What if I could find a way to get in touch with those alternate mes who made those choices?" That is, persons who, if I saw them now, I wouldn't even recognize because their choices, once small, have multiplied to make them such different people.

Richard Bach

With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."

Robert Blair

Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:—this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.

Thomas Browne

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

Timothy Garton Ash

So what were Europeans telling their leaders? The general message was perfectly summed up by the cartoonist Chappatte, who drew a group of protesters holding up a placard shouting "Unhappy" -- and one of their number shouting through a megaphone into the ballot box. There are 28 member states and 28 varieties of Unhappy.

Timothy Leary

Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.

Thomas Sowell

The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.

Thomas Piketty

Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.

Robert Musil

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

Robert Musil

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

Robert Metcalfe

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

Rickey Henderson

If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.

Richard Leakey

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause

Richard Leakey

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

Sylvia Earle

The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species, one way or another, is vulnerable to extinction. And in our time on Earth our impact on the diversity of life has been profound.

Sylvia Earle

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

Suzy Bogguss

The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.

Scott Adams

Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.

Ray Floyd

Guys get voted into the Hall of Fame who don't belong, who lack the numbers. I'm very upset at the Hall of Fame for that. It's not fair to the people who went in early.

Randy Alcorn

Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute. When you store up treasures for yourself in heaven, it doesn’t reduce the treasures available to others. In fact, it is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.