Numbers Quotes

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

It is absolutely stunning. You cannot read numbers that communicate what the reality is. That's part of what I'm trying to get across and that's partly why I use video.

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random.

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

Zero is the number of objects that satisfy a condition that is never satisfied. But as never means "in no case", I do not see that any progress has been made.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways.

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.

Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.

The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.

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.

For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.

Both of you [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] are giants, dare I say nephilim [giants; see Genesis 6:4; Numbers 13:33], in your world.

As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces for Bible Review, for which I serve as editor.

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of Quine.

I mean, of course that's a theoretical question, and we don't know what it would be for, and we don't know how many numbers there are. I am against American combat troops being in Syria and Iraq.

[Donald Trump] held a number of big rallies where he said that he could not possibly have done those things to those women because they were not attractive enough for them to be assaulted.

I think there are a number of issues that we should be addressing. I have put forth a plan to defeat ISIS.

I was involved in a number of efforts to take out Al Qaida leadership when I was secretary of state, including, of course, taking out [Usama] bin Laden.

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

The reason the United States is not aging rapidly in terms of its demographics is because we accept people as newcomers to this society in numbers that far surpass any of our major peers or rivals.

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.

I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.

There're rules to being the side chick. Rule number one: you're number two.

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.

A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to know it's there. You only get to be number one when the public knows about you.

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.

Imagine having "no chain of titles for cars, no VIN numbers, and no DMV. There'd be total chaos! But that's basically the system for debt.

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

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.

The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.