#numbers

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#believe #celebrities #celebrity #comfortably #committing

I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission. ↗

— John R. Allen

#focus #got #home #i #lot

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#behind #flush #get #go #high

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe. ↗

— John Conyers

#across #american #american troops #build #casey

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#dealing #doing #fact #i #numbers

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs. ↗

— Erich Leinsdorf

#congressman #feed #had #havana #numbers

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. ↗

— John Vinocur

#any #armies #bravery #disappears #emotions

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all. ↗

— Eugene Levy

#day #end #end of the day #going #hearing

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#budget #collection #expression #just #numbers