Quotes About Numbers

The government knew a secret that the American public didn't: the numbers of border crossers were down, across the board. Maybe the fence, maybe the harsh new atmosphere

The media only cares about the Yuma 14 because of the large numbers. But this tragedy goes on every day. It never stops. If only one person dies out there, it is exactly the same horror story.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Scripture references for Keepers of the Covenant: Ezra 7–10 Esther 1–10 Ruth 1–4 1 Samuel 15:1–35 Genesis 19:1–38; 36:1–12 Exodus 17:8–14; 28:1–42; 34:15–16 Numbers 1:47–53; 3:11–13; 8:5–26; 18:21; 25:1–15 Deuteronomy 25:5–10; 25:17–19 Joshua 2:1–22; 6:22–25 Judges 4–5 Matthew 1:5–6

Democracy is a cry of war; it is the flag of the party of numbers placed below raised against those above. A flag sometimes raised in the name of the rights of men, but sometimes in the name of crude passions; sometimes raised against the most iniquitous usurpations but also sometimes against legitimate superiority.

ENIAC was completed. The machine was demonstrated for a suitably awed press corps on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1946. And it worked just as Eckert and Mauchly had advertised, adding up thousands of multidigit numbers before the reporters could even blink.

It is not the state of war that isolates. It is well known, it brings people together. But in the battlefield -- that is something different. Because that is when the real enemy, death, appears. I no longer saw any warmth in numbers. I saw only Thanatos in them, my death. And just as much in my own comrades, in Montague, as in the invisible Germans.

Its population was around 3.5 million, Scotland's barely 850,000.

The other Andamanese languages have no known relatives. They have five numbers: one, two, one more, some more, and all. On

In English, the name of every number shares a letter with each neighbor. One shares an O with two, which shares a T with three, which shares an R with four, which shares an F with five, which shares an I with six—and so on indefinitely.

We process more information in the lower half of our visual field, because there is normally more to see on the ground than in the sky. We group objects into units of three or four in order to perceive numbers rather than count them, a process known as subitising, that comes in handy when assessing the number of opponents in battle.

Letter home from college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

A thousand was the number Agamemnon's bards had started using; one thousand, one hundred and eighty-six didn't fit well in a line of verse.

Both telephone numbers for the taxi companies were busy and after he had dismissed the thought of getting hold of a radio car

medalla, ¡oh príncipe!, fue grabada por un profundo conocedor del misticismo numérico. Los antiguos creían que ciertos números tenían un poder mágico. El "tres" era divino, el "siete" era el número sagrado. Los siete rubíes que vemos aquí revelan la preocupación del artista en relacionar el número 128 con el número 7. El número 128 es, como sabemos, susceptible de descomposición

La primera parte, aumentada en 7, la segunda disminuida en 7, la tercera multiplicada por 7 y la cuarta divida por 7 darán el mismo resultado; vean: 7 + 7 = 14 21 – 7 = 14 2 x 7 = 14 98 : 7 = 14

La añoranza es calculada mediante cifras también. Distancia multiplicada por el factor Amor.

was massive – something like 50,000 men, over ten per cent of the entire imperial army.

My son will read and open the books, and my son will write and will know writing. And my son will make numbers, and these things will make us free because he will know - he will know and through him we will know.

In their lapels the insignia of lodges and service clubs, places where they can go and, by a weight of numbers of little worried men, reassure themselves that business is noble and not the curious ritualized thievery they know it is;

They had no argument, no system, nothing but their numbers and their needs.

Isn't it funny, my two pet horrors, incapacity and ledgers and they both hit at once. I write columns of figures in big ledgers and after about three hours of it I am so stupefied that I can't get down to my own work. I can see very readily how office workers get the way they are. There is something soddenly hypnotic about the columns of figures.

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.