Number Quotes

Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.

You have to step up when your number is called.

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.

Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained.

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

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.

Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

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

My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most.

I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months for any radio to happen on the first record, so a lot more support has happened right out of the box.

I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!