Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michael Schumacher

Let's put it this way, I like number seven.

Michael Schumacher

Ross Brawn knows that I prefer to have odd race numbers.

Michael Korda

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

Marilyn Manson

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names

Marilyn Manson

I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.

Michael Kinsley

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

George C. Williams

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

George Carey

And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.

Hayao Miyazaki

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

Hayao Miyazaki

It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.

Fran Tarkenton

Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

Neale Donald Walsch

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

Neale Donald Walsch

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.

Morley Safer

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

Morey Amsterdam

Even the police have an unlisted number.

Joseph Addison

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

Joseph Addison

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

Jose Carreras

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.

Jorge Luis Borges

The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

Kevin Spacey

I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.

Joe Walsh

Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.

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.