Quotes of: My-number-one Keyword

I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.

Numbers... a Gangsta's Child: A Woman's Journey from Rags to Riches

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.

The Last Continent

Life. It begins and begins and begins. An infinite number of times. It is all beginnings until the end comes. Sometimes we know it and sometimes we do not, but, at every moment, life begins again.

Life Drawing

There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books.

Linger

Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.

Snuff

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!

Tahitian Choreographies: Intermediate to Advanced Level Female Instruction

Children. For all of the times that you miss out on things you'd like to do because of them, there are an equal number of excuses they offer to get out of things you'd like to miss.

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

Increase the number of adventures you act on and you’ll lighten the weight of regret.

Postcards and Pearls:Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York

Why didn't I ask him for his number, address, e-mail — anything? Why? Because I'm in a sodding war zone, that's why. And I'm a soldier. And this wasn't supposed to happen.

Torn

If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus was nailed to the cross. It is a terrifying prospect.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Number eight of the ten Amazon commandments: never fight an opponent face-to-face if you couldn’t defeat him. Wait and stab him in the back later.

The Vampire's Bride

Your success is directly proportional to the number of lives you have touched for the better.

Vishwasutras: Universal Principles for Living: Inspired by Real-Life Experiences

Individuals reacted in any number of ways to extreme stress and, relatedly, to impending death. A non-negligible percentage of people reacted in a manner which could be summed up by, ‘Screw it, I’m going out in style!

Vertigo

He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.

Wildwood Boys

Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man who kills the greatest number of his fellow-creatures.

War and Peace

The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society.

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

Walden Two

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Watchmen

The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.

Bre Pettis