Famous Quotes & Sayings

I wouldn't look for a shotgun wedding. I'd look for a number that can settle the situation,

If the Serbs want to talk, they know what number to call.

I have been pleasantly surprised on a number of fronts.

If that number starts to spike, that is a red flag.

If it's 26 percent, then the number of troops withdrawn will be the same, 26 percent.

John Gibbons

He's had our number all year. Three times we haven't been able to do anything with him.

John Gibbons

He got the number of pitches he needed. He didn't look bad. That one inning, he was scattering a little bit. Other than that, he pitched okay.

Hello? Operator! Give me the number for 911!

We took that number and made it work.

Jeff Long

We're pleased, but we have more work to do. When you get into the numbers and you see where we stand, we're not satisfied with where we're performing in that regard. It's a work-in-progress.

Al Gore

It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply...let me assure you that I share youR belief that innocent human life must be protected.

Charles Darwin

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America.

Charles Osgood

That's a number that in broadcasting is unimaginable.

Ayn Rand

A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind.

Ayn Rand

A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.

Cameron Sinclair

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

C. S. Lewis

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

Catherine McAuley

We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.

Alan Dershowitz

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Alain de Botton

What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.

Jerry Nelson

Of all the times you get a wrong number or a prank call, I was wishing it was a prank.

No one has any idea where they are getting their numbers from.

No, no, I thought it was going to take me a while. I said that I wanted to score the number on my jersey, but I didn't think I was going to be able to do it tonight. Not at all.

Multi-core is the new megahertz. If you want more performance rather than ramping up the megahertz, now it's all about ramping up the number of cores.

Morgan's numbers were outstanding. It was all trading.

Numbers can give you a ... sense of the organization, but they can't give you the whole sense,

Bud Selig

Number one, let me say that the program we have is working, ... There's no question about that.

Number one is we don't have day jobs. And something that stems from that is we're able to get together more often.

Number one by a mile, baby. No question.

Eddie Vedder

I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally justify taking or ruining those lives and leaving them with nothing. That, to me, is violent crime. It's certainly more violent than selling grams of pot to other adults.

Earl Nightingale

Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.