#number

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#bound #come #even #get #government

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief. ↗

— John Woolman

#been #breaking #countries #enraged #flourishing

I'm very conscious that I'm in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people who are running to work to do a job that they like? And how lucky to be employed at it - how incredibly lucky. ↗

— Judi Dench

#conscious #employed #how #i #i do

When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future. ↗

— Bob Verdi

#cubs #early #future #late #least

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#great number #implicit #level #number #philosophy

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#crutch #go #need #noses #numbers

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#comes #just #know #numbers #out

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#film #friends #made #number #person

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million. ↗

— George Wald

#as far as #attack #conservative #estimates #everything

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#experience #great #many #millennium #minuscule