Number Quotes

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

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

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you go to someone's house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

In America everything's about who's number one today.

Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.

It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?

His number one objective will be to stress continuity. Continuity means more interest rate increases, so that means the dollar can keep going up.

A number of my friends used to kid me about it -- 'Nice solution, but what can it do?' They didn't see much in it.

I still rate the one I got against Australia as my number one, but it was my first and that's always special.

They are a proud nation that I still feel are the number one side in the world, they know the conditions, will have the crowds on their side and it all adds up to a stiff test for us.

This will probably boost that number by 15 percent.

To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think -- spend some time time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move you to tears. If you laugh, think and cry, that's a heck of a day.

IT'S A very sad situation. We've had a number of distraught citizens call us [to see if their pets were among those found]. They had dealings with the business either directly or through a veterinarian or the [county animal] shelter.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.

We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth.

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.