Numbers Quotes - Page 29

• Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Disease, Causes, Dangerous

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching and terrible reality of the deaths themselves: the young deaths, the violent deaths, the unnecessary deaths

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Pain, Reality

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.310, Vintage

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• Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Dog, Small Numbers, Years

  Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House

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• I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mistake, Intoxicated, Fairs

  Jean Cocteau (2013). “The Difficulty of Being”, p.37, Melville House

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• Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.

  Chinua Achebe

  Should Have, Stressed, Church

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• Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Suffering, Doe

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• 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

  People, Important, Comfort

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• The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

  Dan Brown

  Spiritual, Mind, Share

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• At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Kings, Men

  Ayn Rand (2015). “Anthem”, p.54, Xist Publishing

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• I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the Italian restaurant. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Home, Writing

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• It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Matter, Influential, Mediocre

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• Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right - so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic - and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else? There must be some reason. I don't know. I've never known it. I'd like to understand.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Men, Long

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.23, Penguin

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• The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.

  Naomi Klein

  Religious, Ecosystems, People

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.156, Macmillan

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• Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.

  Jim Butcher

  Confused, Sweat, People

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1270, Penguin

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• To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?

  Adrienne Rich

  Reading, Mean, Multiple Choice

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• And it seemed to me that there were fires Flying till dawn without number And I never found out things-those Strange eyes of his-what colour? Everything trembling and singing and Were you my enemy or my friend, Winter was it or summer?

  Anna Akhmatova

  Summer, Eye, Winter

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• The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

  Sarah Dessen

  Long, Lines, Crash

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.229, Penguin

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• We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.

  Robertson Davies

  Thinking, Grandparent, Different

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Inspirational, Prayer, Insperational

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• Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.

  Daniel Tammet

  Beautiful, Unique, Symphony

  Daniel Tammet (2007). “Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a few numbers be?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mean, Scary, Panic

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• You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Relationship, Family, Years

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.442, A&C Black

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• For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If all we want are jobs, we can create any number--for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. Our real objective is not just jobs but productive jobs--jobs that will mean more goods and services to consume.

  Milton Friedman

  Jobs, Real, Mean

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.

  James Joyce

  Husband, Small Numbers, Office

  James Joyce (2015). “Dubliners: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.101, 谷月社

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• His brothers could tease him about his height or the number of scars he was collecting on his body. He could take the joke when they said he would die having never won a fair wrestling match. But the topic of Bettin still smarted too much. He'd imagined being with her always. Now when he closed his eyes, he had trouble imagining anything else.

  Shannon Hale

  Brother, Wrestling, Eye

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.15, A&C Black

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