Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

The very variety arising from the union of numbers of individuals is the highest good which social life can confer, and this variety is undoubtedly lost in proportion to the degree of State interference.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

Winston Churchill

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

William Zinsser

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

Yanni

Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

Winston Churchill

I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

William Warburton

Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.

Will Oldham

There are a limited number of promoters out there who care about that. You rarely meet a promoter who's like, "I want to be responsible for the best shows, I want to make sure that these are the best shows these audiences have ever seen."

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately by being indifferent to the scale of collateral damage, you're killing hostages in the hope of intimidating those that you want to intimidate. And more likely than not you will not intimidate them. You'll simply outrage them and make them into permanent enemies with the number of such enemies increasing.

Wendell Berry

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

Walter Pater

How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy?

Wade Boggs

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

Will Smith

I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself.

Warren E. Burger

We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.

Warren Buffett

Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

Warren Buffett

In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

Warren Buffett

Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

Wallace Shawn

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

Samuel Lover

There's luck in odd numbers.

Ralph Lauren

I’ve always been about style for people, not ‘You’re going to wear this outfit,’... It was the way you put yourself together and the imagination, not buying this number off the rack, but the way you wear it

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.

LaToya Jackson

I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't.

Theresa May

Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed

Terry Pratchett

When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!

Terry Pratchett

It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.

Terry Pratchett

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Terry Pratchett

There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.