Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Scott Peck

Teach us to number our days aright.

John Amery

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

Al Groh

You'd be surprised at the number that aren't able to play a game.

Max Baucus

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

Maurice Strong

I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.

Maurice Strong

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

Matthew Lillard

The more lines I have, in general, the worse a movie is. It's very rare that I get say great things in fantastic movies. So if you see me as like, number one on a call sheet? In general, that movie is pretty bad.

Matthew Rhys

I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.

Matthew Dowd

This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice.

Mark Skousen

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

Mark Shields

There is always strength in numbers

Mark Shields

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

Patricia Ireland

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Patricia Briggs

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Our wealth is rewarded directly in proportion to the number of people with whom we are willing to share.

Paul Weller

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.

Phil Harding

Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?

Laura Lippman

There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.

John Tyler

If we find ourselves increasing beyond example in numbers, in strength, in wealth, in knowledge, in everything which promotes human and social happiness, let us ever remember our dependence for all these on the protection and merciful dispensations of Divine Providence.

Mark Pincus

You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.

Mortimer 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.

Peter Drucker

To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

Peter Drucker

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

Maria Sharapova

My next goal is to be number one in the world.

Max Planck

Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers.

Dick Thompson

You could pick any number?there's this vast range?and any of these numbers could be right,

You can't say from those numbers that anything was a failure, but it's not an outrageous success.

You can't pinpoint one thing that's wrong. You can say a number of different things.

Their numbers are an estimate, all our numbers are an estimate, but they're perfectly sensible,

John Connolly

Their numbers 9, 10 and 15 demonstrated how to play in the conditions.

These are good, solid numbers by any measure. The underlying fundamentals are strong, but the whole sector is trading on emotion, not fundamentals.

These are a small number of events, but they're enough to raise concern.

Nikola Tesla

Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.