Numbers Quotes
Sad Quotes about Numbers

Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to
help parents to bring up children healthy and happy,
to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
- Benjamin Spock

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are
punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't
looked at the stock market pages.
- Irene Peter

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is,
of course, living in a state of sin.
- John von Neumann

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.
- Estelle Morris

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.
- Junipero Serra

I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
- David Neeleman

I think my numbers speak for themselves.
- Jack Youngblood

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service,
than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline,
more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
- George Washington

I collaborated on most of my dance numbers,
literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.
- Jessie Matthews

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show
are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
- John Guare

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded
people who need strength in numbers.
It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
- Jesse Ventura

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are
arriving in increasing numbers in England.
- John Amery

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
- Isaac Newton

I differ materially from Capt.
Lewis, in my account of the numbers,
manners,
and morals of the Sioux.
- Zebulon Pike

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music,
but there are many people who have never heard of George
Gershwin and those numbers increase.
- Michael Feinstein

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

A few honest men are better than numbers.
- Oliver Cromwell

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.
- Joe Biden

Well I was always a hustler...
I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid,
but I was a fence for them.
I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that.
- Kurtis Blow

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money
but because of our social fabric -
to have large numbers of people who are not working.
- Donna Shalala

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.
- Frank Luntz

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity,
and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as
the complete equipment of the mathematician.
- James C. Maxwell

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
- Plato

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of
the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
- Edward F. Halifax

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.
- Ornette Coleman

I'm writing a book.
I've got the page numbers done.
- Steven Wright

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately
equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn,
a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
- Douglas Haig

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data.
In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings,
wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.
- Melissa Bean

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.
- William Falconer

Discipline is the soul of an army.
It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak,
and esteem to all.
- George Washington

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.
- Kathryn Bigelow

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!
- Pierre Laval

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out,
so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
- Andrew Sullivan

Historic changes and challenges.
Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity.
And yet, for vast numbers across the globe,
the daily realities have not altered.
- Abdallah II

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large
numbers to black-and-white movies anymore -
which is a great shame,
but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
- Sam Mendes

When large numbers of men are unable to find work,
unemployment results.
- Calvin Coolidge

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable
to all those branches of thought in which the essential
features are expressible with numbers.
- Paul Dirac

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.
- Felix Adler

We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users,
more mobile access, more speed, more things online
and more appliances we can control over the Internet.
- Vinton Cerf

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" -
is discerning what large numbers of people think they want,
and supplying it.
- David Foster Wallace

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small
numbers of civilized patrons reside.
- Gustave Courbet

Numbers constitute the only universal language.
- Nathanael West

Twenty years and $40 billion.
They seem like good round numbers.
- Michael Dell

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore,
and I know too much to go back and pretend.
- Helen Reddy

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left,
fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
- Gene Tierney

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers,
but it would win only more mediocrity.
- Ellen Glasgow

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.
- Robert Indiana

Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in
numbers that are probably unnecessary.
- Michael Scheuer

We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the
numbers of people who died;
it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
- Iris Chang

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.
- Jessie Matthews

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
- James Thurber

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
- Rene Descartes

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness
for the greatest numbers.
- Francis Hutcheson

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published.
Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven,
have never seen the light of day...
and rightly so.
- Sue Grafton

They were saying computers deal with numbers.
This was absolutely nonsense.
Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
- Ted Nelson

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways.
But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
- Scott Adams

God may not play dice with the universe,
but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.
- Paul Erdos

And there was huge numbers of UFOs around my parents home in Kingston.
- Betty Hill

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.
- Aaron Hill

It's clearly a budget.
It's got a lot of numbers in it.
- George W. Bush

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.
- Judd Gregg

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been.
You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are
playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.
- Brandi Chastain

I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age.
If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate,
would age be an issue?
- Randy Johnson

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.
- Alain de Botton

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving
madmen into polite humans.
- Philip J. Davis

When two elements combine and form more than one compound,
the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass
of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.
- Humphry Davy

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large
numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire

We vote - if the public votes 50 percent,
we vote 70 percent.
So we have a bigger impact with our numbers,
and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.
- James P. Hoffa

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people
are few and how the suffering of nameless millions
in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.
- Edwin Way Teale