Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Storr

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

Bertrand Russell

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Martyn has had some time out of the team and we feel this is the right time to slot him back in at number four.

You always have to run the numbers to see which would be appropriate.

We don't have a lot of depth. We're already on starting pitcher, what, 10 or 11? What number is it?

Bill Guerin

We realized it had to be a big number to reset the dial,

H. G. Wells

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

Carly Fiorina

You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.

Buzz Aldrin

We're number one on the runway.

Janet Fitch

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

Janet Fitch

I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked...

Ernesto Zedillo

What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.

Ernest Borgnine

I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.

Gareth Bale

I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

Hayao Miyazaki

It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.

Gretchen Rubin

The number one resolution that people mention to me as something that's made them happier is - to my surprise - making the bed.

Herman Kahn

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

Herman Melville

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.

Henry David Thoreau

In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.

Graham Greene

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

Gifford Pinchot

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

Hugh Downs

How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

Howard Zinn

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.

Guy Finley

One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.

Gotye

Have your friends collect your records and then change your number...

Gottfried Leibniz

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

James Bovard

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

Jean Guitton

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Jean Guitton

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Jean-Francois Cope

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.