Famous Quotes & Sayings

You always have to run the numbers to see which would be appropriate.

We don't have a lot of depth. We're already on starting pitcher, what, 10 or 11? What number is it?

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

We have people doing it full-time. I don't have any number to quote.

Bertrand Russell

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

Bertrand Russell

Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.

That was the key. All of those numbers were bearish for the market.

Brandon Roy

That was just incredible. For that year, that season, we will always be a number one seed. That's something they can never take from us.

That's the number I wore in Japan, so I'm wearing it now.

Ian Blair

We made a small number of administrative changes,

William Shakespeare

I am ill at these numbers.

The problem is getting sufficient numbers of students in the program.

We have a system that's been in place for 70 years. It works, ... but get the numbers right.

The quarterly numbers were very encouraging but we're still waiting to see what their expectations are for 2006.

We are in discussions with a number of people,

Keith Brooking

Whoever did that poll hasn't been there in a number of years. When the place is packed, there's nothing better.

Bill Guerin

We realized it had to be a big number to reset the dial,

We have taken quite a number of statements from victims.

It does surprise me that we are number one.

This number may be a touch better than expectations.

Steve Allen

We should be able to get more numbers out here to see this, because this is a big event.

We are as vulnerable as we have been in a number of years. It is not a pretty picture.

We have evaluated a number of locations, and we have not seen anything like this.

We could still probably go to 150-170 (basis points on the Philippine five-year CDS). People are going to be waiting for the first-quarter tax numbers before taking it to those levels.

John C. Reilly

There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky.

E. B. White

The lineout should be a contest. I spoke to Clive (Woodward) on Tuesday and we spoke about the numbers in the lineout.

Mahatma Gandhi

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

Mahatma Gandhi

A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

James Taylor

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

James Surowiecki

Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

James Surowiecki

There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.

James Monroe

The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.