Quotes and Sayings about Numbers



"I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways."
- Amy Adams
(Related: Numbers, School)

- Scott Adams
(Related: Numbers, Universe)

"No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Power, Church, Numbers, Today)

"It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers."
- Herb Alpert
(Related: Numbers)

"American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England."
- John Amery
(Related: American, England, Numbers, Troops)

- Mary Antin
(Related: Boys, Children, Girls, Numbers, Public, School)

- Aristotle
(Related: Control, Class, Community, Middle class)

- Peter Arnett
(Related: People, Policy, American, Dying, Numbers, President, Will)

"Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers."
- Henry Walter Bates
(Related: Flowers, Numbers)

- Gregory Bateson
(Related: Numbers)

- Birch Bayh
(Related: People, Burden, Difference, Numbers, Office, Public, Want)

- Melissa Bean
(Related: Life, Financial, Bank account, Cause, Credit, Numbers, Ruin, Security, Wrong)

- Paul Begala
(Related: Numbers)

"As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers."
- John Desmond Bernal
(Related: Numbers, Routine, Service, Workers)

- Joe Biden
(Related: Financial, Now, Numbers, President, Support, Will)

- Kathryn Bigelow
(Related: Art, People, Film, Numbers, Painting)

"The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them."
- Buffalo Bill
(Related: Fighting, Numbers)

"Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops."
- John Blair
(Related: People, Destruction, Fact, Numbers, Police, Talking)

"Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them. I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that."
- Kurtis Blow
(Related: Art, Music, Numbers)

"Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe."
- Earl Blumenauer
(Related: Life, People, America, Disasters, Numbers)

"The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers."
- Suzy Bogguss
(Related: Power, Numbers)

- W. E. B. Du Bois
(Related: Books, Fact, Numbers, Reading, Will, Words)

- Jo Bonner
(Related: Effort, Information, Internet, Numbers)

- Norman Borlaug
(Related: Technology, Numbers, Past, Years)

- Alain de Botton
(Related: Books, Lonely, Numbers, Talk)

"Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting."
- Jack Bowman
(Related: Life, Baby, Numbers, Will)

"I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim."
- Wilford Brimley
(Related: Numbers, School, Water)

"We rest our case on the production numbers."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Numbers, Production, Rest)

- George W. Bush
(Related: Numbers)

- John Byng
(Related: Enemy, Force, Numbers, Wind)

- Georg Cantor
(Related: Nature, Infinite, Numbers, Opinions, Opposition)

"When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do."
- Jonathan Carroll
(Related: Love, Idea, College, Editors, Literary, Numbers, Writers)

- Robert Casey
(Related: Abortion, Exercise, Hurt, Influence, Liberal, Numbers)

- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Control, Internet, Numbers, Will)

"We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points."
- Wilt Chamberlain
(Related: Numbers)

"We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths."
- Iris Chang
(Related: People, Mind, Numbers, Victims)

- Brandi Chastain
(Related: People, Kids, Now, Numbers, Soccer)

"Early numbers are always wrong."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Numbers, Wrong)

- Ron Chernow
(Related: People, Managers, Numbers, Quiet, Tyranny, Universe)

- Jay Chiat
(Related: Technology, Opportunity, Clients, Numbers, Software)

- Chris Christie
(Related: Numbers)

- Ornette Coleman
(Related: Being, Numbers, Repetition, Worry)

"In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong."
- William Collins
(Related: Numbers)

- John Conyers
(Related: American, Experts, Iraq, Numbers, Troops)

- Calvin Coolidge

"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
- Gustave Courbet
(Related: France, Nation, Numbers)

- Ralph A. Cram
(Related: Life, Influence, Nothing, Numbers, Weight)

"We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks."
- Jim Cramer
(Related: Country, Job, Numbers)

"I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works."
- Jim Cramer
(Related: Money, Numbers, World)

- Walter Crane
(Related: Life, Thought, Numbers, Police)

"A few honest men are better than numbers."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Men, Numbers)

- Angela Davis
(Related: Work, People, Being, Numbers)

- Angela Davis
(Related: People, Class, Connection, Middle class, Numbers, Today)

- Angela Davis
(Related: Leadership, People, Labor, Now, Numbers, Today)

"The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans."
- Philip J. Davis
(Related: Help, Numbers)

"I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved."
- Bruce Davison
(Related: Time, Logic, Numbers, Sensibility)

- Humphry Davy
(Related: Numbers)

"Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers."
- Michael Dell
(Related: Numbers, Years)

"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
- Rene Descartes
(Related: Men, Numbers)

"We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers."
- Dustin Diamond
(Related: Numbers, Writing)

"The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers."
- Paul Dirac
(Related: Thought, Numbers, Physics)

"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything."
- Gregg Easterbrook
(Related: Numbers)

- Jan Egeland
(Related: Women, Children, Numbers)

- Paul Erdos
(Related: God, May, Numbers, Play, Universe)

- Leonhard Euler
(Related: Day, Mathematicians, Mind, Mystery, Numbers, Order, Reason, Will)

- William Falconer
(Related: Health, Consequences, Measure, Numbers, Vices)

"He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase."
- Michael Feinstein
(Related: Music, People, Care, Name, Numbers, World)

- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Experience, Life, Women, Education, Management, American, College, Numbers, Students)

- Carlton Fisk
(Related: Time, Numbers, Years)

- Ben Folds
(Related: End, Numbers, Pressure)

- Steve Forbes
(Related: Home, Government, Attitude, American, Example, Numbers, Parents, Public, Schools)

- J. F. C. Fuller
(Related: Men, War, Bombs, Numbers)

"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Numbers)

"The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers."
- William Lloyd Garrison
(Related: Success, Numbers)

- Carl Friedrich Gauss
(Related: Arithmetic, Numbers)

"Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity."
- Ellen Glasgow
(Related: Force, Mediocrity, Numbers)

"And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect."
- Seth Godin
(Related: Change, Money, Politics, People, Force, Numbers, Will, World)

- Sue Grafton
(Related: Day, First, Light, Numbers)

- Judd Gregg
(Related: Government, Economy, Loss, Numbers)

- John Guare
(Related: Ballet, Now, Numbers)

"Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves."
- Jean Guitton
(Related: Numbers, Originality)

"We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves."
- Jean Guitton
(Related: Numbers)

- Luis Gutierrez

- Douglas Haig
(Related: Numbers, Struggle)

- Edward F. Halifax
(Related: Name, Numbers)

"Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security."
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: Growth, American, Tax, Job, Numbers, Republican, Security, Unemployment, Workers)

"Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high."
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: Lie, Americans, Creation, Direction, Economy, Job, Numbers, Right, Unemployment)

- Auberon Herbert
(Related: Doctrine, Rights, Numbers)

- Whitey Herzog
(Related: December, February, Numbers, Struggle)

- Robert Hewison
(Related: Death, Education, Truth, Growth, Values, Country, Museums, Numbers)

- Aaron Hill
(Related: Courage, Numbers)

"And there was huge numbers of UFOs around my parents home in Kingston."
- Betty Hill
(Related: Home, Numbers, Parents)

- James P. Hoffa
(Related: Numbers, Public, Race, Vote)

- Edwin Powell Hubble
(Related: Numbers, Space, Universe)

- John Hughes
(Related: Change, Baby, Numbers)

- Victor Hugo
(Related: People, Greatness, Country, Man, Numbers)

"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: People, May, Mountains, Numbers)

"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."
- Francis Hutcheson
(Related: Happiness, Action, Numbers)

- Robert Indiana
(Related: Houses, Mind, Numbers, Old, Years)

"If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror."
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
(Related: Famous, Numbers, Stars, Words)

"The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many."
- Patricia Ireland
(Related: Numbers, Opposition, Statistics)

"I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it."
- Marc Jacobs
(Related: Time, Computer, Numbers)

- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Time, Truth, People, Numbers, Wrong)

"It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down."
- Jack Johnson
(Related: Determination, Crime, Effort, Numbers, Will)

- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Aggression, Numbers, Vietnam, Will)

- Magic Johnson
(Related: People, Day, Numbers)

"I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?"
- Randy Johnson
(Related: Age, People, Numbers, Questioning)

- Peter Jurasik
(Related: Graduation, Time, End, Numbers, Years)

"As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra."
- Howard Keel
(Related: Act, Being, Feeling, Nothing, Numbers, Voice)

"If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us."
- Kerry King
(Related: Business, Decision, Numbers, Play)

- Paul Klee
(Related: Positive, Numbers)

"So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped."
- David Knopfler
(Related: Blood, Company, Name, Numbers)

"There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity."
- John Knowles
(Related: People, Strength, Feeling, Numbers)

- Billy Koch
(Related: Numbers)

- Sandy Koufax
(Related: Politics, Job, Numbers, Play)

- Pierre Laval

- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Business, Home, War, Heart, Artist, Nations, Numbers, Talk)

- John Lawson
(Related: Content, Country, Enemies, Now, Numbers)

"The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs."
- Erich Leinsdorf
(Related: Numbers)

- Eugene Levy
(Related: Day, End, Hearing, Numbers)

- Meriwether Lewis
(Related: Day, Hunting, Night, Numbers)

"We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them."
- Meriwether Lewis
(Related: Geese, Numbers)

"People have to understand what my game is. It's not all about numbers. There's a bigger picture here. I don't create off the dribble. I rely on my teammates; my role is to set screens and get rebounds."
- Rebecca Lobo
(Related: People, Numbers)

"If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person."
- Frank Luntz
(Related: Language, Numbers)

"When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right."
- Steve Marriott
(Related: Manager, Act, Confidence, First, Numbers, Right)

- Yukihiro Matsumoto
(Related: Government, Money, Example, Tax, Numbers)

- Chris Matthews
(Related: War, Fact, Numbers)

"For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting."
- Jessie Matthews
(Related: Time, Dance, London, Numbers, Play)

- Jessie Matthews
(Related: Dance, Numbers)

- James C. Maxwell
(Related: Arithmetic, May, Numbers, Quantity, Rules, World)

- James C. Maxwell
(Related: Nature, Science, Determination, Laws, Numbers, Problems)

"Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people."
- Thom Mayne
(Related: People, Agreement, Numbers, Projects, Public)

- Scott McCallum
(Related: Negative, Positive, Hurt, Numbers, Public)

"You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason."
- Barry McGuire
(Related: Business, Music, Numbers, Reason)

"The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth."
- Ed McMahon
(Related: People, Growth, Golf, Majority, Numbers, Play)

"The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day."
- Sam Mendes
(Related: Love, Movies, Wisdom, People, Day, Numbers, Shame)

- Ruth Ann Minner
(Related: Government, Money, Games, May, Numbers, Play)

- Marvin Minsky
(Related: Numbers, Problems)

"All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers."
- Kevin Mitnick
(Related: People, Selling, Credit, Numbers)

"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win."
- Michael Moore
(Related: Enemy, Revolution, Numbers, Occupation, Will)

"There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Time, Numbers, Schools, Teachers)

- David Neeleman
(Related: Numbers)

- Ted Nelson
(Related: Computers, Information, Nonsense, Numbers, Saying)

- John von Neumann
(Related: Living, Numbers, Sin, State)

"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: Numbers, Weight)

"We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul."
- Conor Oberst
(Related: Soul, Numbers)

- Shaquille O'Neal
(Related: Numbers)

"You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC."
- Bill O'Reilly
(Related: Numbers)

"Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do."
- Wilfred Owen
(Related: People, Numbers, Old)

"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Books, Numbers, Years)

"I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers."
- Thomas Perry
(Related: People, Buying, Job, Numbers)

- Irene Peter
(Related: Numbers, Safety)

- Zebulon Pike
(Related: Manners, Morals, Numbers)

- Plato
(Related: Knowledge, Decision, Numbers)

"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality."
- Sydney Pollack
(Related: People, Conservative, Liberal, Numbers)

- Philip Pullman
(Related: Manners, Numbers)

- Harold Ramis
(Related: People, College, Country, First, Military, Numbers, Pretty, Summer)

- Eric S. Raymond
(Related: Beginning, Internet, Linux, Numbers)

"I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Thought, Being, Numbers, Parents, Production)

- Helen Reddy
(Related: Numbers, Woman)

- Branch Rickey
(Related: Change, People, Ideas, Baseball, Numbers, Years)

- Adam Rickitt
(Related: Influence, Key, Numbers)

"If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that."
- Dana Rohrabacher
(Related: People, Country, Enemy, Murder, Numbers, Order)

- Julius Rosenberg
(Related: Now, Numbers, Will, Worth, Years)

- Paul Ryan
(Related: Ideas, Attitude, Country, Debt, Numbers, Right)

"Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary."
- Michael Scheuer
(Related: Numbers, Respect)

- Dwight Schultz
(Related: People, Being, Numbers, Will)

- Allyson Schwartz
(Related: Americans, Injury, Numbers)

- Tom Seaver
(Related: Consistency, Baseball, End, Numbers, Statistics, Theory, Will, Worry)

"As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole."
- Lance Secretan
(Related: Commitment, Leaders, Numbers)

- Junipero Serra
(Related: Fishing, Numbers)

"We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working."
- Donna Shalala
(Related: Money, People, Nation, Numbers)

- Charlie Sheen
(Related: Marriage, Being, Numbers)

- Mark Shields
(Related: Strength, Cause, Numbers)

"Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die."
- Brian Sibley
(Related: People, Night, Numbers)

"But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation."
- John W. Snow
(Related: Economy, Environment, Inflation, Needs, Numbers)

- Peter Sotos
(Related: Legal, Ideas, Books, Numbers)

- Thomas Sowell
(Related: People, Exercise, Free speech, Rights, Numbers, Property)

- Benjamin Spock
(Related: Cause, Children, Help, Numbers, Parents, Physicians, Trying)

"Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases."
- Johannes Stark
(Related: Effect, Numbers, Running)

"And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists."
- George Stigler
(Related: Science, Numbers, Scientists)

"My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities."
- Bjarne Stroustrup
(Related: Numbers, Past, Question, Tools, Years)

- Andrew Sullivan
(Related: Travel, Numbers)

- Tom Tancredo
(Related: Islam, Afghanistan, Fight, Numbers, Radical, states, United)

- Edwin Way Teale
(Related: People, Numbers, Suffering, World)

- George Thorogood
(Related: People, Numbers)

- James Thurber
(Related: Numbers, Safety)

"We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: People, Europe, Numbers)

- Ann Veneman
(Related: Cows, Investigation, Numbers)

- Jesse Ventura
(Related: Business, Religion, People, Strength, Noses, Numbers)

- Gore Vidal
(Related: Being, Earth, Living, Numbers, Years)

- John Vinocur
(Related: Time, War, Bravery, Emotions, Numbers, Oratory, Present, Sense, Suffering)

- Voltaire
(Related: Forbidden, Numbers, Sound)

- Voltaire
(Related: Numbers, Sound)

- Diane Wakoski
(Related: Books, Libraries, Numbers, Press, Will)

- David Foster Wallace
(Related: People, Numbers, Want)

- George Washington
(Related: Superiority, Discipline, Army, Neglect, Nothing, Numbers, Service)

- George Washington
(Related: Success, Soul, Discipline, Army, Numbers)

- John Wayne
(Related: People, Country, Land, Numbers, Trying, Wrong)

"Numbers constitute the only universal language."
- Nathanael West
(Related: Language, Numbers)

"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."
- Gilbert White
(Related: Numbers, Summer)

- George C. Williams
(Related: Circumstances, Numbers, Theory)

"I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early."
- Dontrelle Willis
(Related: Key, Numbers)

- Luke Wilson
(Related: People, Brothers, Cards, Numbers, Trying)

- Dick Wolf
(Related: Time, People, Numbers)

"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers."
- James Wolfe
(Related: Army, Numbers)

"And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine."
- Lee Ann Womack
(Related: Love, Music, People, Numbers, Past, Play, Years)

- John Woolman
(Related: Time, People, Countries, Grief, Numbers, Poverty, Waste)

- Steven Wright
(Related: Numbers, Writing)

"I think my numbers speak for themselves."
- Jack Youngblood
(Related: Numbers)

"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar."
- Xun Zi
(Related: Death, Food, Strength, Bravery, Injury, Numbers, Right, Shame, Trying, Wrong)