Numbers Quotes

I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

I gotta be honest with you...I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.

Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many

I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

I've had a number of opportunities to hear Andrei Ryabov perform and I am amazed at the high level of creativity, technique and freshness in his playing.

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

Every day I break my own personal record for number of days I have been alive.

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies.

Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.

It turned out that Democrats did not come out in the numbers they came out for, for Barack Obama. Five million fewer voters than went for Barack Obama back in 2012. So, what went wrong?

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.

A number of people walk up to me and say, "You're much taller than I thought."

My family is my number one priority.

I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.

McKinney, Texas is the number one place to live in the country. It's certainly the number place to live in Texas according to Forbes and all these other. Wonderfully integrated, it's upscale.

The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads.

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself.

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

I was recruited by a number of schools including Miami University, University of Kentucky, University of Cincinnati, Indiana university, West Virginia University as well as others.

I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

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

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.

Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!

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

After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.

I did Nancy Sinatra in Vegas a number of times, and then the Sinatra family, when we did Frankie and the Muppets. Big show in Vegas.

When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.

My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.

My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.

Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the water in the first place is the element of risk.

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.