Quotes with number

  • I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
  • To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.
  • Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.
  • Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you - ye are many - they are few.
  • While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
  • Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel.
  • The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.
  • Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
  • Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
  • In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.
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  • Baldwin Spencer 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
    Baldwin Spencer
    Antigua and Barbuda politican and labour leader (1948 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Henry David Thoreau A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Mortimer J. Adler Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
    Mortimer J. Adler
    American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
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  • George Eliot The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Anna Louise Strong A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Sagan A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Christopher Hampton A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Abraham Pais A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
    Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) p. 45
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Bob Graham A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • W. H. Auden A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Cameron Sinclair A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Ralph Richardson Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.
    Ralph Richardson
    English actor (1902 - 1983)
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  • Caity Lotz Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • Adam Smith Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Cynthia Ozick After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.
    Cynthia Ozick
    American writer (1928 - )
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