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the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Numbers'

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My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.
Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish Scientist (1950-  )
We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
Andrew Sullivan, American Journalist (1963-  )
We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it's in the United States.
Tom Tancredo, American Politician (1945-  )
How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.
Edwin Way Teale, -
I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers.
George Thorogood, American Musician (1950-  )
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber, American Comedian (1894-1961)
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
Gene Tierney, American Actress (1920-1991)
The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.
Ann Veneman, American Public Servant (1949-  )
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
Jesse Ventura, American Politician (1952-  )
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore Vidal, American Novelist (1925-  )
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.
John Vinocur, French Journalist
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire, French Writer (1694-1778)
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire, French Writer (1694-1778)
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.
Diane Wakoski, American Poet
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
David Foster Wallace, American Writer (1962-2008)
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington, American President (1732-1799)
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington, American President (1732-1799)
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne, American Actor (1907-1979)
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
Nathanael West, American Writer (1903-1940)
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
Gilbert White, English Scientist (1720-1793)
 
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