#numb

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#armies #could #defeat #dozen #enabled

I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid. ↗

— Jim Diamond

#band #buy #delighted #i #next

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me. ↗

— Sam Elliott

#amazing thing #ang #ang lee #lee #me

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#crowd #defend #excuses #favorite #hidden

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#action #best #greatest #greatest happiness #greatest number

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #human #human beings #inverse #involved

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#artist #business #dreadful #fighters #follow

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza! ↗

— Jay Leno

#average #average people #ever #fat #first

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free. ↗

— Frank Murphy

#free #i #i write #number #readers

There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes. ↗

— Bobby Rahal

#number #prototypes #tremendous