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Quotes About Outnumbered

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid. When you give an Einstein two centuries to perfect his science, you give a thousand others two centuries to perfect their brutality.
~ Douglas Preston
God likes his people to be outnumbered because then there is no mistaking that he alone is the Deliverer.
~ Edward T. Welch
We have never been outnumbered, we have only been out organized.
~ Linda Sarsour
High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
~ Beth Ditto
Any man in the company of two woman is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be. By definition. 'So when its just you and me I outnumber you two to one, is that right?' Affirmative.
~ Kingsley Amis
Vengeous scowled. 'As you can see,' he said, 'you are vastly outnumbered.' I usually am.' Your situation has become quite untenable.' It usually does.' You are within moments of being swarmed by these filthy creatures of undeath and torn apart in a maelstrom of pain and fury.' Skulduggery paused. 'Okay, that's a new one on me.
~ Derek Landy
I was outnumbered, unarmed, weak, and screwed. In that order.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Yorktown, where friendly French soldiers and sailors had outnumbered American ground troops more than two to one.
~ Akhil Reed Amar
The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.
~ Douglas Preston
I had been outnumbered. Outmaneuvered. They'd withheld information from me. Worse, logic and rationality were on their side.
~ Robin Hobb
There's all of us adults, and one of him. We ought to be able to keep up. Why do I feel like he has us outnumbered and surrounded?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
There's all of us adults, and one of him. We ought to be able to keep up. Why do I feel like he has us outnumbered and surrounded?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I saw myself as a trailblazer in the 1980s as a female lawyer in the City. It was exciting, as women were outnumbered by men five to one. But while I had this sense of trailblazing, in reality, I wasn't pushing boundaries; it was just a personal myth I'd created, as I was doing a job I wasn't enjoying.
~ Michelle Paver
I'm so thankful to Fox News for the chance to be on 'Outnumbered,' but I'm leaving to focus on other things. I have no doubt the show will continue to do well and wish all my friends and colleagues at the network nothing but success.
~ Meghan McCain
It is no accident that the place that lends itself to creating conflicts between the dominant order of thought and people who want to speak their minds freely is the college campus, where conservatives feel outnumbered and crushed by a system of higher education that believes in academic freedom for me, not for thee.
~ Ben Domenech
The biggest mistake made by German commanders was to have underestimated 'Ivan', the ordinary Red Army soldier. They quickly found that surrounded or outnumbered Soviet soldiers went on fighting when their counterparts from western armies would have surrendered.
~ Antony Beevor
It was ten against ten. So, as Svengal later recounted, it was no contest. He had the enemy outnumbered three to one.
~ John Flanagan
They'd still be outnumbered by the pirates, he thought. But then a savage grin lit his face. Being outnumbered didn't worry him. They were Skandians, after all.
~ John Flanagan
There were four of them, so Will had them seriously outnumbered. He gave them one warning, identifying himself as a King's Ranger, but they chose to attack. Within seconds, three of them were on the ground, nursing arrow wounds to arms and legs. The fourth, his eyes wide with terror, tossed his sword away and fell to his knees, begging for mercy.
~ John Flanagan
The scene had interested me. It was so different from the ordinary demeanour of tramps--from the abject worm-like gratitude with which they normally accept charity. The explanation, of course, was that we outnumbered the congregation and so were not afraid of them. A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor--it is a fixed characteristic of human nature; and, when he has fifty or a hundred others to back him, he will show it.
~ George Orwell
If these men wished to influence ideas and public policies, why the secrecy? Isn't that what people do in a democracy? In a 1997 speech, Charles Koch provided an answer: "We are greatly outnumbered." Meaning, most Americans don't want what they want. Democracy can't work for them.
~ Sarah Chayes
Hmmm. If you're going to threaten to claw a cat's ears, you should try not to look so terrified at the prospect. Firepaw, would you like to try? Ah, yes, I like that you indicated the rest of your patrol. It's always good to let the enemy know they're outnumbered. Sandpaw, put that fire ant down. No, I don't care that Firepaw might not know what it is. Now is not the right time to show him—and he certainly doesn't need to get bitten by one.
~ Erin Hunter
Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. + Together, we sang.
~ Lady Gaga
There's something I've noticed, sir,' he said, 'ever since we joined up with you in Spain.' 'What's that?' 'That we're always outnumbered and surrounded.' Sharpe had been listening, not to Harper, but to the day itself. 'Notice anything?' he asked. 'That we're surrounded and outnumbered, sir?
~ Bernard Cornwell