Numbers Quotes - Page 21

• Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

  Patricia Briggs

  People, Nightmare, Spawn

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.109, Penguin

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• It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Love, Phones, Soul

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “The Walk: A Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Baby, Instruction, Manuals

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.223, St. Martin's Press

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• I wasn't used to living crowded cheek by jowl with numbers of other people, as was customary here. People ate, slept, and frequently copulated, crammed into tiny, stifling cottages, lit and warmed by smoky peat fires. The only thing they didn't do together was bathe - largely because they didn't bathe.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Fire, People, Together

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1214, Dell

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• I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way. There are menus, probably, so that you can start at the good spots and not have to relive the bad ones. You can measure your life by the number of scenes you’ve survived, or the minutes you’ve been stuck there. Probably, though, life is more like one of those dumb video surveillance tapes. Grainy, no matter how hard you stare at it. And looped: the same thing, over and over.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, Thinking, Dvds

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• I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Real, Believe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Squares, Balance

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• Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Cat, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

  Neil Gaiman

  Path, Avoiding, Has Beens

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• You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Growing Up, Two, Age

  Maud Hart Lovelace (2011). “Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• What's wrong with being number 2?

  Mitch Albom

  Number 2

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.159, Broadway Books

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• happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself there was no difference between being “inside” and being “outside,” that it all came down to X’s and O’s that could be acquired in any number of different ways, but the pain increased to a point where I thought I might collapse, and I limped away.

  Jennifer Egan

  Pain, Differences, Legs

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.74, Anchor

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• The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

  Joe Hill

  Irrational Numbers, Forever, Soul

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• I wish I could love people as you do, Molly!' 'Don't you?' said the other, in surprise. 'No. A good number of people love me, I believe, or at least they think they do; but I never seem to care much for any one. I do believe I love you, little Molly, whom I have only known for ten days, better than any one.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Believe, Love You, Thinking

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2617, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Simple, Gentleman, Noble

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.63, Vintage

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• What happened to your foot?" "I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between a hawk and a pigeon. I had to educate him. He bit me while I was tearing out a sizable number of his wing feathers." "Uncle," Polgara said reproachfully. "He started it.

  David Eddings

  Uncles, Stupid, Eagles

  David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey

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• Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love Is, Firsts, Creation

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

  Hayao Miyazaki

  World, Chaos, Creation

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• The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Teaching, Persistence

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• She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Children, Heart, Names

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 06, 2011

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• Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

  Emily Giffin

  Party, Believe, Cheater

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Kings, Mistake, Lying

  R. Scott Bakker (2010). “The Judging Eye: One (The Aspect-Emperor Trilogy)”, p.169, The Overlook Press

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• This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors

  Winston Churchill

  War, Ambition, Names

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.

  Clive Barker

  Two, Evil, Perfect

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• Now, you'll have to answer my questions." "Oh, very well," Set said. "I like Brazil for the World Cup. I'd advise investing in platinum and small-cap funds. And your lucky numbers this week are 2, 13--" "Not those questions!" Menshikov snapped.

  Rick Riordan

  Lucky, Investing, Brazil

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