Numbers Quotes

The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the number of poor has declined by 24 percent in those 15 years [1990-2005].

My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.

The ABCs of Death offers us a chance to work closely with a large number of visionary filmmakers to create a film with more jaw-dropping moments than a whole summer of blockbusters.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

We put forth a very strong number. It's always hard to know, it's impossible to know what numbers are out there.

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.

The first time I went to Mexico, it was really difficult. Number one is the language, I didn't know any Spanish language. Of course, the culture itself. Very different from where I grew up.

Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.

Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.

In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.

The number one key to success in life is to master your own state. If you can manage and master your states, there's nothing you can't do.

I've been number two in films for donkey's years.

I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column.

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.

Don't date a woman who gives you a pager number instead of a home number (she's looking for control).

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world

Four!" I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris.

I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

I believe in numbers and signs.

Education is the number one priority.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.

I have the utmost respect for people who are asexual. I didn't believe that they existed at first. But they do exist, and their numbers are growing.

Some 95 percent of all sexual contact still occurs in permanent relationships. That's an impressive number.

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and what technology will we need to use to get there.

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?

You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers.

We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.

There is nothing to be intimidated about - it's just another long run where a few more people show up and they happen to wear numbers.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more.

So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

The essence of effective portfolio construction is the use of a large number of poorly correlated assets.

I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them

The ObamaCare premiums, the numbers started moving away from Hillary Clinton he moment there was a problem with.

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

I shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and I was shooting just one specific film. Film is cheap but time is expensive.

This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.

The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.