Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilhelm von Humboldt

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

Winston Churchill

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

Rudyard Kipling

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

Rudy Giuliani

The number of casualties will be more than most of us can bear.

Sam Brownback

The Supreme Court has also issued and never reversed a number of decisions that are repugnant to the Constitution's vision of human dignity and equality.

Sam Brownback

I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

Rufus Wainwright

I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.

Rowan Williams

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

Ronald Reagan

Illegal immigrants in considerable numbers have become productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force. Those who have established equities in the United States should be recognized and accorded legal status. At the same time, in so doing, we must not encourage illegal immigration.

Ronald Reagan

I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?

Wendell Berry

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

Walter Pater

How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy?

Wade Boggs

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

Vladimir Nabokov

Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being - not a constant state - that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?

William Petty

Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.

Zig Ziglar

People who won’t take step number one never take step number two.

Zoe Kazan

We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.

Our number has to start with a six.

In the second 10 second trial, our numbers were really weird. It was obvious we did something wrong.

If you send that number on your transcript to another school, it wouldn't make sense.

In 1930, there were about 150,000 one-room public schoolhouses in the United States. By 1997 that number had dwindled to just 450.

I like to see this number in the 70 percent range.

I just keep preparing myself like I'm the number one guy,

I reached out to him a number of times.

A.J. Burnett

I reached back for the number one and it wasn't there.

Miguel Cabrera

I'm happy. You have to put up your numbers every year and see what happens. My time is coming, you know?

If the numbers were there, if the need was there in the mid-1980s, I don't see how it could not be there in the mid-2000s,

John Updike

If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.

I have seen sales of 100,000 numbers go in one lot.

If one examines the workforce there is quite a significant number of people who would not qualify for the benefits.

I hadn't been playing that badly, just racking up big numbers every now and then and throwing shots away,