Top 1200 Irrational Numbers Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.

One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

We all have seen Madhuri Dixit's hit dance numbers and we can't forget the contribution Saroj Khan added to them.

Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

I can't speak for everybody. But I will say that for me, when I've been depressed - and I get depressed. I have irrational bouts of anxiety. I have random FedEx deliveries of despondency. Just like, 'I didn't order this. Oh, well, keep the PJs on, cancel everything you're doing today. It's time to take a sad shower.'

By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.

Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.

The importance in what we're seeing in countries around the world is a poorly regulated and poorly functioning private sector using irrational and ineffective medications that result in the emergence of drug-resistance tuberculosis. What we've done is begun a program to rapidly improve infection control in places that are treating TB patients.

It's not about me. I think people are too caught up with what I'm doing. It's just numbers. I'm trying to win.

I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.

I don't know if it sounds arrogant or whatever, but I'm just trying to get better numbers than last year.

There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title.

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

For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life

The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die... His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such.

What you really are afraid of is that you're competing against somebody who is rich and irrational. I mean, it used to be a given, a saying in the industry: Don't ever bid against Rupert Murdoch for anything Rupert wants, because if you win you lose. You will have paid way too much.

Two or three times a week, I drive by the houses of numbers 78-100 just to rub it in.

The signal of the importance of something is whether you're actually measuring it and you're holding people accountable to improving those numbers.

Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had it easy...

There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

I'm brilliant at working out numbers up to 180 but if you ask me to split a restaurant bill I'm rubbish.

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer.

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

Let's also teach people about pensions and savings, insurance and the like. But if they aren't already familiar with numbers that won't be as effective as it might be.

I was offered only item numbers and did not want to accept as I had it ticked off my bucket list.

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.

That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor -- not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

It's interesting sometimes to read about the last days of past civilizations. It's hard not to notice during these readings that those last days were filled with completely irrational ideas and behaviors that could not be explained in any way outside of a mass collapse of reason.

Statistics are one thing. But if you're not putting up the numbers as far as winning, they're not going to consider you for things like the MVP.

Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters.

How marvellous it is to enjoy Messi. No one can touch his numbers, and it is impossible for anyone to do what he has done apart from him.

If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an irrational retreat from reason. Rather, it is about grasping a deeper order of things which is more easily accessed by the imagination than by reason.

I can't say I ever got to the stage of swapping phone numbers with refs, but I don't have a problem with managers and referees communicating.

My numbers are better than Troy Aikman, but he has Super Bowl rings and he's played with Hall of Famers as well.

The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.

Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.

When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.

I've never really been a numbers guy... I like to score, for sure... but my main thing is I want to win.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.