Top 31 Quotes About Metric System
#2. With an estimated population of nine billion people by 2050, we cannot continue to consume resources at the same rate and maintain our quality of life.
David Suzuki
#3. men will not cease to desire the impossible and will not lose their longing to destroy - so long as self-destruction and self-sacrifice are preached to them as the practical means of achieving the happiness of the recipients.
Ayn Rand
#4. Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.
Ina Garten
#5. You can tell all that about me from your measuring tape?'
'Well, I use the metric system, It's the only way to get really exact numbers.
Catherynne M Valente
#6. Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.
Jim Butcher
#7. If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.
Judith Stone
#8. During the meeting in Delhi with Dirac on 12 January 1955, Nehru asked him if he had any recommendations for the future of the new republic of India. After his usual reflective pause, Dirac replied: 'A common language, preferably English. Peace with Pakistan. The metric system.
Graham Farmelo
#9. The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system
Eric Hobsbawm
#10. Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis ... This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.
Adrian Davis
#11. Money is just like the metric system:
you work more, you earn more
and there's always an extra zero to be added.
It's only a zero, though.
Luca Pesaro
#12. Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system
P. J. O'Rourke
#13. There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?"
"Evil's afoot."
"Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.
Jim Butcher
#14. Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.
Dave Barry
#16. If heaven had a height, you would be that tall
Common
#17. I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't.
Amy Winehouse
#18. I don't understand why a 40 is a quarter of beer when a 40 is 40 ounces. It's time to embrace the metric system.
Greg Gutfeld
#19. The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.
Greg Gutfeld
#20. The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
Dave Barry
#21. If God wanted us to use the metric system, He would have given us ten fingers and ten toes.
Judith Stone
#24. Cancer is a kind of possession, too. And like a demon, before it claims you, it nibbles away at who you are, erases the face you have always presented to the world to show the unwanted thing inside.
Andrew Pyper
#25. The French writer Edmond About, who visited Greece in 1832, a dozen years after its independence, reports how peasants struggled with the metric system as it was completely unnatural to them and stuck to Ottoman standards instead.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#26. There's never a recession if you work for the government.
Ann Coulter
#27. The republican party is my vehicle, not my master.
John Kasich
#28. What you see and feel depends on what you know and what you are looking for.
Debasish Mridha
#29. If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.
Jesse Helms
#30. Some people are made stronger by loss. Others are broken by it.
Jennifer McMahon
#31. God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
Salvador Dali
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