Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence Griffith Joyner

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

Henry Louis Gates

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Cat Stevens

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.

Everybody's getting more touches. Their numbers have been down during the season but it's not because they can't do it.

The numbers that you give me are very impressive.

The numbers reflect the tip of the iceberg.

The numbers look good, but it's two quarters in a row that analysts are skeptical about how they're reporting their numbers.

The numbers look fine. It is a reassuring set of results.

The numbers he's put up this year, any way you slice them, are unbelievable.

The numbers don't stack up (on rental property), end of story.

The numbers didn't do much to slow the rally down,

The numbers are very significant for the markets,

The numbers are the numbers, ... and they are a very precise measurement of a very vague concept.

Tom Jones

The numbers are disappointing when it's all said and done, if we reduce (traffic) by 15 percent.

The numbers are better than what we've seen on average, but it's still early.

The numbers are an indicator. The programs are more tangible.

The numbers are a little better than we expected,

Even up until yesterday, we thought that the numbers would change.

Barry McCaffrey

be killed suddenly, in significant numbers and without warning.

Mike Hargrove

For a lot of players, Adrian's numbers would be good. But it's been a tough year for him.

Bill Nelson

It's a long time before the election, and I don't take any numbers seriously this early, ... It's going to be a tough race, and I take nothing for granted.

It's always a surprise when the numbers come up. You don't know what to expect.

Jason Gann

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

Ernst Mayr

There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population but that are of great advantage to the population as a whole.

Ernesto Zedillo

What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.

Ernest Borgnine

I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.

Mike Berry

There is strength in numbers and those numbers come in pounds.

Hanna Rosin

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

Fred Hoyle

The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time.

Frank Herbert

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.

Guru Nanak

The Formless Supreme Being abides in the Realm of Eternity. Over His creation He casts His glance of grace. In that Realm are contained all the continents and the universes, Exceeding in number all count. Of creation worlds upon worlds abide therein; All obedient to His will; He watches over them in bliss, And has each constantly in mind.