Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Martineau

There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles ...

Hugh Downs

How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

Howard Zinn

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.

Hannah Arendt

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

Guy Finley

One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

George Bernard Shaw

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

Erich Leinsdorf

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

Between these two businesses, where we are weakest, Terra is strongest, and where Terra is weakest, Lycos is strongest. That provides for a number of complimentary benefits.

Barry McCaffrey

be killed suddenly, in significant numbers and without warning.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Geraldine Ferraro

Do you know how many women were in the Senate in 1984? One. We've multiplied that number by 14.

Sony will still be number one for this year.

John Reed

That tower is owned by Southwest Communications and we have been unable to get a phone number that works for Southwest Communications.

Maria Sharapova

That's why I play tennis, because I want to be number one, not because I want to be number 10, ... If you don't want to be number one in the world, then there is no reason for you even to start.

We will be trying to keep people alive, ... That's it, priority number one.

Throughout the week I just tried to take every snap I could. When my number is called, I just have to keep it between the white lines.

I've seen him do it a number of times.

I've talked to a number of NHL stars, actually.

Sarah Wright

This year is small, but I don't think the numbers matter.

What everyone will want to see is the numbers and the structure of the business.

We talk all the time about putting another number on the wall. At a school like this, it's a special opportunity.

There's never one number that tells you the end-all.

The total from the operations is 90 killed while the number of arrests has reached 178,

Richard Lewis

We were overjoyed to see the number of companies.

Their (AARP's) numbers simply do not reflect the true amounts paid by seniors for their medicines.

I'm not really sure who did since I have more than 100 volunteers working on my campaign, and they've all take a substantial number of signs to place about town.

Larry Davis

I'm not going to even put a number on it.

I know that a number of trustees are furious,

The officer had a number of reasons to (stop) this vehicle,' Martinez said.

The number today struck me as neutral. More stocks are up than down, and that's the ultimate test.

The numbers that you give me are very impressive.

The numbers reflect the tip of the iceberg.