Numbers Quotes

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling.

For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.

Dating is primarily a numbers game.... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.

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

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

I don't hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don't trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.

The genius' behind the new Rocky movie decided to call it Rocky Balboa so that we'll probably forget that it's number six. Or Rocky Balboa can't count past five.

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

I have to have an emergency phone number in case anything happens

The Bible does not say we should aim at numbers but rather urges us faithfully to proclaim God's message in the boldness of the Holy Spirit. This will build God's church God's way.

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

There are unlimited numbers of angels, beyond the human ability to count. Every time God has a thought of love, a new angel is created.

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

There have been many Presidents of the United States and the roll will be indefinitely extended. We have had a number of brilliant soldiers, but only one great general.

What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.

I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

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

Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

May God give you - and me- the courage, the wisdom, the strength always to hold the kingdom of God as the number one priority of our lives. To do so is to live in simplicity.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.

Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.

Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

Let's put it this way, I like number seven.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

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.