Number Quotes
48 quotes
"Behold, the number five is at hand. Grab it and shake and harness the power of networking."
"The value is in the worth, not in the number."
"I tried to count all the seconds that I have loved you for, but I gave up. I found it was easier to count the number of the stars in the universe."
"You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic."
"Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"What it takes is the passion to lead and the commitment to that passion through a lifetime. A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"You don’t need a huge number of people with little passions to get a good job done. You rather need few people with huge passion."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within."
"If peaceful protesting really worked, the need to peacefully protest would have subsided to almost zero a long time ago! Instead, the thing that has subsided to almost zero are the number of complaints filed against police officers that are actually upheld."
"As the wireless radiation industry continues to drastically increase the number of transmitters, electromagnetic researchers are documenting the range of new adverse health conditions that are emerging in the masses."
"Mind you, the effectiveness of one hunter’s gun does not determine the number of bush meats the other hunter will kill. You got to be yourself. Be you."
"My life views on sex, men, dating, and self-worth were sculpted with the unfiltered ramblings of a drunken misogynist."
"Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered."
"It wasn’t really a loud-mouthed, hyperactive little pig-tailed blonde that made Carl cringe. It was what I represented. While his upbringing was battered humiliation, I was spoiled, doted on, and spoon-fed by the world. I don’t think he was even aware of his intentions to reduce that child to his own state of self-loathing, but he was truly brilliant at it."
"Until the police internal affairs system starts prosecuting and firing a substantial number of corrupt and incompetent police officers, I will not be lighting it up blue!"
"Plan the number of hours each day you’ll spend on your dreams, the kind of people you’ll love to connect with, the amount of capital you’ll want to invest and the sources of help you are required to get. Make a plan."
"Never fear to lose your three square meal per day if that will cause you to be a fan of the truth. Never fear to have a decrease in the number of your friends if you should maintain the truth…"
"Create time for yourself... There are 24 hours in a day... Outline the number to spend on your dreams every day!"
"Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be."
"There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number."
"I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267)."
"I had to make a large number of changes to clear Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) up, it took years to figure it out. I kept on making change after change until one day I realized that EHS was no longer present."
"Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of nature. Why do these constants come together to make the particular number 1/137.036 and not some other number?"
John Archibald Wheeler, Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
"For [Wolfgang] Pauli the central problem of electrodynamics was the field concept and the existence of an elementary charge which is expressible by the fine-structure constant ... 1/137. This fundamental pure number had greatly fascinated Pauli, .... For Pauli the explanation of the number 137 was the test of a successful field theory, a test which no theory has passed up to now."
Charles P. Enz, Pauli Lectures on Physics: Volume 1, Electrodynamics
"It’s a number.”“It’s not,” she said. “It’s a chance to wake up new."
"The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy."
"Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side."
"Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described."
"'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way."
"Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion."
"The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society."
"Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control."
"Life isn't about the brand of clothes you wear, or about who looks the best. It's about the number of faces which smile when they hear your name"
"Goal..., let's see this year how far I can reach... and the year which is comming it will be a number above the goal number."
"When Greed makes to money number one priority, it trust nobody"
"We were sexual targets, marked as eternal sluts for exploring the desires only acceptable in men."
"protectionI requested the figures on OSHA whistle-blower complaints made and the number actually upheld. OSHA refused to supply them. They also refused to uphold my OSHA complaints and provide whistle-blower protection to me. My independent research leads me to understand that they uphold almost no OSHA whistle-blower complaints. It is very concerning that it seems like the same thing is happening with complaints made to Police Internal Affairs."
"Lady, you have the wrong number. Our cat isn't even in the hospital. He doesn't want pajamas."
Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
"I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number."
"Equality in education is my number one battle."
"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind."
"A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of beef from cows fed a diet that includes the hormone ractopamine, because of the fairly grave health concerns."
"Given the number of restaurants I have, I could easily travel all the time - but I try not to."
"I literally change my phone number 10 times a year and I don't ever save my contacts."
"The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there."