#numbers

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#force #mediocrity #more #numbers #only

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

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

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans. ↗

— Philip J. Davis

#help #humans #into #madmen #numbers

Tarots tell different sides of the various personalities that exist in all of us. I find it fascinating how they combine names, images, and numbers. You don't need to be able to read them, or know their real meaning, to be charmed. ↗

— Domenico Dolce

#charmed #combine #different #different sides #exist

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#composite #distinguishing #factors #important #into

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

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical. ↗

— James Taylor

#find #get #heavy #i #into