#numbers

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#authors #because #books #booksellers #destination

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known. ↗

— William Falconer

#augments #consequences #corruptions #health #incident

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. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#amount #believe #exercise #government #i

Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large. ↗

— John Byng

#appeared #before #could #distinguish #enemy

It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#excited #frequencies #hit #magnetic #musical

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined. ↗

— Brian Baird

#annual #balance #budget #combined #contradictory

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#art form #audience #could #extraordinary #film

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#bombed #burned #children #civilians #clear

The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#gives #large #me #numbers #power

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase. ↗

— Michael Feinstein

#care #george #gershwin #heard #his