Quotes About Outnumbered

#1. In nearly every year for at least 250 years, deaths outnumbered births in London.

Bill Bryson

#2. I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

S.M. Stirling

#3. Thanks for going in with me," I told her.
"No problem, there is too much testosterone in the car without you. I'm outnumbered. Besides, coffee sounds perfect," Nessa, said as she got in line for our drinks.
-Cora and Nessa at Starbucks

Andrea Heltsley

#4. Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered.

R. Lee Wrights

#5. How many men just waltzed right in to enemy territory, outnumbered and with no evident exit plan? He was either stupid as hell or his absolute command of the situation was hella sexy.

Jax Garren

#6. But it says here,' said Ridcully, 'that you are a finest swordsman,' 'I was outnumbered.' 'How many of them were there?' 'Three million.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. + Together, we sang.

Lady Gaga

#8. I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

Tom Lehrer

#9. These flies were half the size of my fist. They came at you and stuck to you with a single-minded purpose you had to admire. We were hopelessly outnumbered, but we still slapped and kicked and karate-chopped ourselves until we reached an uneasy truce.

Terri Cheney

#10. Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.

Harriet Harman

#11. You will never develop courage if you don't stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. Down with tyranny!' Bramble cried. 'Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender!

Heather Dixon

#13. But on the flip side, you'd make an awesome brother. I've been outnumbered by female siblings for too long.

Elaine Levine

#14. During World War II, Iceland was a poor country with a total population of about 120,000 people. In contrast, the occupying U.S. force consisted of roughly 40,000 men - which meant that U.S. soldiers outnumbered adult Icelandic men - at least during the height of the occupation.

Gudjon Bergmann

#15. In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just like the story of David and Goliath and David's friend, the Stealth Bomber.

Tina Fey

#16. It is no shameful thing to be beaten when outnumbered, not when you were brave enough to try.

Alexandra Bracken

#17. David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most.

Douglas Alexander

#18. They were numerically outnumbered.

Garry Birtles

#19. General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.

Edward Everett

#20. Bullies are almost always outnumbered by the bullied. We just need to organize.

Ivan E. Coyote

#21. The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.

Douglas Preston

#22. What was the point in all the fighting with gauntlets if they were only going to stop fighting the moment the outnumbered fools decided the fight was over? Rowl flicked his tail in exasperation. Humans.

Jim Butcher

#23. The enemy are only 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered. We are under devastating fire. I shall not withdraw an inch but will fight to our last man and our last round.

Som Nath Sharma

#24. There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

Galileo Galilei

#25. Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#26. Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

Donna De Varona

#27. Any man in the company of two woman is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be. By definition."
'So when its just you and me I outnumber you two to one, is that right?'
"Affirmative.

Kingsley Amis

#28. You're outnumbered.' That had never mattered much to me before. 'Drop the gun, Bandit.' Malik sneered.
'There's only one man who gets to call me that,' I said. 'And you're not near as good-looking as him.

Alwyn Hamilton

#29. The best way to defend is to attack and the best way to attack is to attack. At Chancellorsville, Lee was asked why he attacked when he was outnumbered three to one. He said he was too weak to defend. - GEORGE PATTON

Jeff Shaara

#30. Outnumbered! Ya'll are always the hell outnumbered! - Marek, Gunship

J.J. Snow

#31. True ninjas are always outnumbered, because they are individuals.

Jarius Raphel

#32. That's just it. What if I can't protect you? I'll be outnumbered, outgunned. What if I can't get you out of there?

Collette West

#33. There's all of us adults, and one of him. We ought to be able to keep up. Why do I feel like he has us outnumbered and surrounded?

Lois McMaster Bujold

#34. Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.

Walt Kelly

#35. Coppers were always outnumbered, so being a copper only worked when people let it work. If they refocused and realized you were just another standard idiot with a pennyworth of metal for a badge, you could end up as a smear on the pavement.

Terry Pratchett

#36. I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

Dennis Washington

#37. That he was outnumbered did not matter because the whole world had outnumbered him long ago, and what do numbers matter?

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#38. High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.

Beth Ditto

#39. Angels often flee from people who scream too loudly - they know at such moments how close the man or woman is to us, and they feel outnumbered. For devils rush in to attend such outcries.

Norman Mailer

#40. We hit every jazz and blues club on and off Bourbon Street, dancing and drinking until we girls were drunk enough to go with the boys to the strip clubs which outnumbered all other businesses in the French Quarter. Here is where my solution unfolded.

Darwun St. James

#41. You beat a dozen armed men single-handed?" "Oh aye, sir," said Wee Mad Arthur slyly, "but it was nae fair, I had them outnumbered.

Terry Pratchett

#42. The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement.

Hugo Black

#43. It seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

Sarah Caudwell

#44. So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won't be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.

Dan Millman

#45. This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.

Harlan Coben

#46. England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.

Mark Lawrenson

#47. She's in the club. The hopelessly-outnumbered-and-surrounded-by-monsters club.

M.R. Carey

#48. You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.

James MacDonald

#49. I was outnumbered, unarmed, weak, and screwed. In that order.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#50. There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#51. Next time I'll try getting captured. Just to keep things interesting." He tossed Mal a rifle. "Shall we?"
"I can't tell who's who!" I protested.
"We're the side that's hopelessly outnumbered.

Leigh Bardugo

#52. Without education and understanding, the barbarians would have outnumbered us and swarmed the city gates a long time ago.

Peter F. Hamilton

#53. If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.

L. David Mech

#54. How we spoke about magic and with whom we discussed it. Humans outnumbered us and found our power frightening, my mother explained, and fear was the strongest force on earth.

Deborah Harkness

#55. In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they're vastly outnumbered by blessings.

David Jeremiah

#56. My heart and my cock seemed to like the idea, and Whitney made me a slave to both, so my wits were outnumbered.

Rachael Wade

#57. Alone, you're vastly outnumbered; but in the company of another, by some weird miracle of human math, the odds seem wonderfully improved in your favor.

Charles D'Ambrosio

#58. It's true that my foe outnumbered me, but I am the hero of Aral Pass, after all, and sometimes when Prince Jalan Kendeth is roused to anger it's best to flee, whatever your number. If you're eight.

Mark Lawrence

#59. Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.

Shimon Peres

#60. Normally I am a peace-loving guy, especially when I'm outnumbered three thousand to one.

Scott C. Davis

#61. If the Danes are outnumbered," my father told me that night, "they won't fight. They're like dogs, the Danes. Cowards at heart, but they're given courage by being in a pack.

Bernard Cornwell

#62. Boaz is not diminished, marginalized, or feminized in the slightest by being outnumbered and influenced by Ruth and Naomi. As a matter of fact, he only grows stronger himself through his collaborations with them.

Carolyn Custis James

#63. If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one.

Edward Ball

#64. I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.

Bob Dylan

#65. Nothing's really changed since then, except that now any children we have might be wizards themselves, and I'll be hopelessly outnumbered.

Eilis O'Neal

#66. Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.

Peter Abelard

#67. There is only one you. God wanted you to be you. Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!

Charles R. Swindoll

#68. They outnumbered me, and I was worsted and under their feet; but, as yet, I was not dead.

Charlotte Bronte

#69. The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents.

John Culberson

#70. I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.

Glenn Hoddle

#71. he felt himself hopelessly outnumbered.

John Steinbeck

#72. If you have to go up unarmed against an angry T rex with a four-digit IQ, it can't hurt to have a trained combat specialist at your side. At the very least, she might be able to fashion a pointy stick from the branch of some convenient tree.

Peter Watts

#73. Although we may face untold numbers that by their sheer mass appear to render us as little more than a speck in the face of them, a single person standing with God amidst any mass will always be an indomitable majority.

Craig D. Lounsbrough