Significant Numbers Quotes

#1. In New York City we have the biggest police force in the country. We have 35,000 uniformed officers. We're able to mass officers in significant numbers if we had to.

Raymond Kelly

#2. One of the enduring myths of campaign analysis is that you can actually count the number of 'undecided' voters by asking voters if they are undecided or not. Sometimes, significant numbers of voters actually change their minds.

Jeff Greenfield

#3. Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women ... that will be a society that works for everyone.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#4. The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.

Cornel West

#5. We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.

Rudy Giuliani

#6. There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into sharp conflict with people's demands that their material and social needs should be fulfilled. Pg. 10

Walter Rodney

#7. The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic change points to the possibility of future climate change, which inevitably will have significant implications for global economics.

Eduard Bruckner

#8. I may be a donkey but I can kick the wrong people.

Amit Abraham

#9. The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.

J. P. Guilford

#10. If I can't blow to significant heights, at least I can inspire the niggas that's doing the big numbers.

U-God

#11. I couldn't give you a count of the number of single women I have in our congregation that are serving in very significant ways in the community. Our desire is for them to live all of life to the glory of God whether God calls them to be a wife or a mother or not.

Ligon Duncan

#12. Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

Mignon McLaughlin

#13. Everybody has their own level of doing their music ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

Linda Ronstadt

#14. Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five.

John Scalzi

#15. Within living memory of this country, men could rape their wives: women were not seen as a separate sexual entity, with the right of refusal.

Caitlin Moran

#16. Hank had left me his doomed army, and he'd left Marcie his inheritance. Unfair didn't begin to cover it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#17. HBO is not an advertiser-based model, it's a subscription model. So what's significant to HBO is not necessarily the debut of an episode, it's the cumulative numbers.

Michael Mann

#18. If you listen closely, silence can be deafening.

Truth Devour

#19. Casinos are spreading like wildfire, and it seems to be an entertainment option that a significant number of people engage in. That's just the reality of gaming that it is proving to be attractive to a great number of people.

Ron Porter

#20. My own experience as a person with blood type O was that my health, strength, and vitality significantly improved when I became a vegetarian ... I have also found a significant number of very healthy vegetarians who are Type O.

Gabriel Cousens

#21. Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.

Morihei Ueshiba

#22. I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut.

Rick Riordan

#23. That the West thinks that seven is lucky and the Chinese think eight is shows both that numerology is wrong and that it's popular across the world. Numbers feel mysterious and significant. So all you need to do to sound mysterious and significant is to pick a number, any number.

Mark Forsyth

#24. I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

Paul Lansky

#25. The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

Eric Hoffer

#26. Enjoy the ride while it still lasts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact.

Paulo Coelho

#28. There is no doubt that the increasing numbers of women in the economy has helped fuel significant growth everywhere. And economies that are making the shift more effectively and rapidly are dramatically outperforming those that have not.

Hillary Clinton

#29. I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.

Mary McCormack

#30. There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

Bill Gates

#31. I am not dramatic, okay? My presence just commands a certain kind of attention-

Tahereh Mafi

#32. You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.

Nick Hornby

#33. The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.

Adam Mansbach

#34. Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.

David Perlmutter

#35. Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence and abuse during their lifetime, including elder abuse, child abuse, gang-related violence, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.

David Schneider

#36. Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept the validity of Darwinian claims. In fact, the number of biologists who have expressed some degree of disillusionment is practically endless.

Michael Denton

#37. I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

Eva Green