Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mandy Moore

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

Malcolm Turnbull

We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

Mahatma Gandhi

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

John C. Maxwell

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

James R. Thompson

We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry.

James Grant

To me the gold price takes the form of a very uncomplicated formula, and all you have to do is divide one by 'n.' And 'n', I'm glad you ask, 'n' is the world's trust in the institution of paper money and in the capacity of people like Ben Bernanke to manage it. So the smaller 'n', the bigger the price. One divided by a receding number is the definition of a bull market.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables.

Luis Fortuno

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.

M. Scott Peck

Teach us to number our days aright.

John Amery

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

Al Groh

You'd be surprised at the number that aren't able to play a game.

Dick Thompson

You could pick any number?there's this vast range?and any of these numbers could be right,

You can't say from those numbers that anything was a failure, but it's not an outrageous success.

You can't pinpoint one thing that's wrong. You can say a number of different things.

Their numbers are an estimate, all our numbers are an estimate, but they're perfectly sensible,

John Connolly

Their numbers 9, 10 and 15 demonstrated how to play in the conditions.

These are good, solid numbers by any measure. The underlying fundamentals are strong, but the whole sector is trading on emotion, not fundamentals.

These are a small number of events, but they're enough to raise concern.

Drew Henson

You want to play, but I kind of understand with the way the situation was unfolding with the first team going longer, obviously there wasn't that many series for the rest of us, ... ... I'll be ready Thursday if my number is called.

You've got a number of different property owners

All I can do is go out there when my number is called and do my best.

Eric Lefkofsky

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

Eric Hoffer

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Emmanuelle Seigner

Age is a number on a piece of paper.

Emmeline Pankhurst

It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.

James Chanos

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.

Napoleon Hill

The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

Norman McLaren

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

Norman Maclean

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

Norman Ralph Augustine

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

Orson Pratt

If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds.