Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

John Marshall

Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.

John Maynard Keynes

To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.

John Maynard Keynes

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

John Major

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

John Landgraf

We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.

John Lancaster Spalding

The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

John Knowles

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.

Judy Blume

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

Kate Millett

For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.

Laurel Clark

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.

John Kenneth Galbraith

However, it is safe to say that at the peak in 1929 the number of active speculators was less - and probably was much less - than a million.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them from

Karen Carpenter

Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.

Joyce Brothers

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.

Justin Bieber

When I release something, I'm like, "OK, I want it to be the best." When I release my fragrance, I want it to be the number one fragrance. I don't want it to be like, "Oh yeah, you got ninth on the rankings."

Kanye West

There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture,

Paul Dirac

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

Paul Davies

It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.

Patrick Dixon

The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great.

John Philip Sousa

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

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.

Ovid

Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

Matt Groening

I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and the work that they do is really fantastic. It's a blast just to sit around with them in the writers' room and listen to all the filthy jokes that will never get on the air.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Mary Wollstonecraft

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

Mary Hunter Austin

Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved....this they say is the element and this is the principle of things.... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water....

Mark Hamill

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.

Maria Monk

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

Oswald Chambers

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.

Leonhard Euler

Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

Leonhard Euler

For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.