True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us.
~By Kerry King ~
The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.
~By John Conyers ~
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
~By Martin Lewis Perl ~
I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.
~By Wilfred Owen ~
As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.
~By Howard Keel ~
Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
~By Nathanael West ~
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
~By Aaron Hill ~
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
~By Gore Vidal ~
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
~By John von Neumann ~
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
~By Xun Zi ~
When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~By Voltaire ~
Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.
~By Henry Walter Bates ~
I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.
~By Joe Biden ~
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~
Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.
~By Michael Dell ~
We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it's in the United States.
~By Tom Tancredo ~
I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.
~By Jessie Matthews ~
As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
~By Jack Johnson ~
Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
~By Alain de Botton ~
Early numbers are always wrong.
~By Mary Cheney ~
Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.
~By Julius Rosenberg ~
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
~By Carl Friedrich Gauss ~
I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.
~By Bruce Davison ~
You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.
~By Estelle Morris ~
Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.
~By Thom Mayne ~
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
~By Barry McGuire ~
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
~By Kathryn Bigelow ~
But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.
~By Shaquille O'Neal ~
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.
~By Tom Seaver ~
This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers.
~By Ruth Ann Minner ~
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
~By Felix Adler ~
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
~By Branch Rickey ~
We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.
~By Jim Cramer ~
And there was huge numbers of UFOs around my parents home in Kingston.
~By Betty Hill ~
The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.
~By Frank Luntz ~
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
~By Paul Klee ~
We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers.
~By Dustin Diamond ~
You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
A few honest men are better than numbers.
~By Oliver Cromwell ~
The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.
~By Ann Veneman ~
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
~By James C. Maxwell ~
I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.
~By Luke Wilson ~
And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.
~By Peter Sotos ~
There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.
~By Mary Antin ~
I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.
~By Robert Casey ~
And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
~By Seth Godin ~
We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.
~By Junipero Serra ~
We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
~By Jean Guitton ~
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
~By Aristotle ~
As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
~By Lance Secretan ~
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
~By Jean Guitton ~
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.
~By Paul Ryan ~
For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting.
~By Jessie Matthews ~
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
~By Leonhard Euler ~
Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
~By Angela Davis ~
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
~By Conor Oberst ~
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
~By Abdallah II ~
I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.
~By Walter Crane ~
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~By Voltaire ~
I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.
~By Paul Begala ~
At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.
~By Eugene Levy ~
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.
~By Sandy Koufax ~
The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.
~By Philip J. Davis ~
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.
~By Meriwether Lewis ~
Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!
~By Pierre Laval ~
If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.
~By Judd Gregg ~
It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.
~By J. F. C. Fuller ~
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
~By James Thurber ~
In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website.
~By Jo Bonner ~
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
~By Philip Pullman ~
But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.
~By John W. Snow ~
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
~By Auberon Herbert ~
People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.
~By Dick Wolf ~
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
~By Gene Tierney ~
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.
~By William Falconer ~
We rest our case on the production numbers.
~By Mel Brooks ~
You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.
~By James Wolfe ~
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
~By Scott Adams ~
Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.
~By Luis Gutierrez ~
There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.
~By Mark Shields ~
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.
~By Robert Indiana ~
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
~By John Guare ~
We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured.
~By Jan Egeland ~
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.
~By Robert Hewison ~
So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.
~By David Knopfler ~
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
~By Ted Nelson ~
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.
~By Steve Forbes ~
I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.
~By Jim Cramer ~
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