Numbers Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.

  David Foster Wallace

  Believe, People, Giving

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and more qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves.

  Howard Schultz

  Letting Go, Moving, People

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• The rich does not work for money, but money work for them...., While the poor work for money.Illiteracy, both in word and numbers, is the foundation of financial struggle....,Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward... or if i stopped working today, how could i survive?...,Wealth is the measure of cash flow from to asset column compared with the expense column.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Struggle, Cash Flow, Foundation

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• But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Care, Foxes

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 3: Runaway”, p.73, Scholastic Inc.

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• One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stars, Depth, Brilliant

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.

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• There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.

  David Rakoff

  Regret, Home, Should Have

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• The favorite game of temperamental people is Try to Guess Why I’m Ticked Off. (Contestant number one, Why do YOU think he’s pissed off? Why, I’m not sure, Bob, but I’m going to go with ‘Because I Left the Faucet Dripping.’ BEEP. I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. The correct answer is: ‘Because You Happen to Exist.’)

  Deb Caletti

  Sorry, Thinking, Games

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

  B. F. Skinner

  Intelligent, Men, Trying

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.81, Hackett Publishing

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