Top 1200 Irrational Numbers Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

Large numbers have been punished on the basis of a broad and vague definition of terrorism and a worryingly low threshold of evidence.

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

There's probably nothing quite like crossing the finish line and seeing the clock read numbers that you have never seen before.

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

If the numbers keep mounting, newspapers will eventually have to admit that pool exists and give it some coverage.

As nines in our system, we need to make sure that we come off the line and that we have numbers correct on both sides.

Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.

It's quite likely that planets and solar systems like ours could be forming in other galaxies in great numbers.

Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

I mean, I want to play, to be able to put up numbers to help my team win. Whatever I've got to do to do that, I'm cool with it.

There's no magic numbers in birthdays in my life, there are no milestones, there's no event. Every birthday has to be celebrated to its fullest, even if it's with one person or with 20.

The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names

While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it remains to be seen whether these decisions lead to predictable errors that create systematic mispricings upon which rational investors can readily and economically capitalize.

You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.

I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.

The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion....The only alternative is the doctrine of special creation, which may be true, but irrational.

Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

That's where I would love to bat, and I have always batted at the top of the order. Numbers one and two are what I am most comfortable in.

When I first came to Def Jam, in '06, all we ever did was win, put up big numbers.

We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a small card table, and the only thing on the card table is a revolver loaded with flexible bullets.

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

If you're on Thursday night at 8:30, because the history of that time slot has been so disastrous, there's a hell of a lot of numbers pressure.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.

I might not be producing that much with the ball in my hands, but my fakes, my jet sweeps, it's doing numbers, and that's the main thing about it.

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

Imagine having "no chain of titles for cars, no VIN numbers, and no DMV. There'd be total chaos! But that's basically the system for debt.

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

Rational anxiety is when you're aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I'm going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I'm leaving CVS, and there's a car behind me, and I'm wondering if he's following me home.

People intuitively realize that there is strength in numbers and take comfort in the company of others, especially in times of anxiety or need.

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

I just keep thinking about putting up good numbers, playing hard and winning games.

I took pride in knowing, 'Hey, my numbers may be down, but football guys know I'm playing at a high level.'

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.

Records and numbers are important, but there's nothing better than a lot of people being happy through our music.

Conor changed the game and he paved the way. He did those big numbers and I'm one of the guys who is going to carry that forward.

Sometimes, you have a hunch and then you find numbers that substantiate that, it makes either the staff or the players say, 'OK, let's fix that.'

I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.

There is clearly something right about 7, because other numbers fail to resonate with us in quite the same way.

It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.

It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.

The numbers in women in rock 'n' roll and metal are pretty much growing a lot, which is a great thing.

To all my young fans out there, I ask that you no longer consider me a role model. See me as an individual who had the opportunity to be a role model but blew it. Blew it with irresponsible, irrational, immature decisions.

In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief.

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

The British, and most European countries, have struggled to accommodate Muslim immigrants, but they have nevertheless welcomed them in large numbers.