#figures

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#best #count #deeds #dial #feels

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#difficult #figures #know #may #mind

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#ayn #ayn rand #before #believe #facts

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#another #another woman #any #approached #because

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. ↗

— Frank Wedekind

#good #imposing #looks #only #suits

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#indifference #life #life

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#carolina #colorful #colorless #does #excel

Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome. ↗

— Don Bluth

#authority figures #better #call #cost #definitely

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. ↗

— Evan Esar

#definition #facts #figures #producing #reliable

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#home #i #then #values #world