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«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»
Author: Alain de Botton
| About:
Books,
Reading
| Keywords:
authors, bookseller, Booksellers, destination, most-valuable, numbers, The Lonely
«Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art»
Author: Robin Tyler
(Activist)
| Keywords:
art, Christianity, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, numbers, paint
«I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.»
«Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.»
«Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. . . . the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
beyond question, critical, critical point, diminishes, finite, Finite number, numbers, the system
«Chandler: All right, kids, I gotta get to work. If I don't input those numbers... it doesn't make much of a difference.»
«How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.[?]But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adorned, adorning, adorns, basically, composed, composes, enormous, find out, How does, hung, look up, numbers, of his own, onto, painful, prisoner, retreat, retreated, retreating, retreats, shadows, The Prisoner of, The Shadows, total, totally, truths
«If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Revolution
| Keywords:
constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, deprive, justify, minority, moral force, numbers, point of view
«Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
army, discipline, esteem, formidable, numbers, procured, procures, procuring, small number
«Arms are instruments of ill omen. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. When great numbers of people are killed, one shou»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
compelled, despite, exult, glorifies, glorify, glorifying, instruments, killing, numbers, omen, omens, relish, relished, relishes, relishing, The Killing, well-to-do
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