Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown.
Lucy Powell
WorkPeopleNumbersTaxNewOver
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
David Foster Wallace
GoodPeopleThinkNumbersWantTV
Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.
Jason Alexander
LifeCreateNumbersCrisisWill
I was good with numbers.
Chanda Kochhar
GoodNumbers
Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets.
Joseph Brodsky
EvilConfidentNumbersAlwaysPurity
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
PastToolsNumbersQuestionDepend
Many Western nations have made significant gains through automation and operational excellence, while emerging markets rely on ever-increasing numbers of workers. Each will improve their competitive position only by examining every element of operations to make existing resources more efficient and to deliver real value at lower cost.
Dinesh Paliwal
ExcellenceValueAutomationNumbers
If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and enhance our marginalization.
Al Sharpton
AgeBlackNumbersVoteWillEmpower
It's always about bringing in the numbers, the viewership. That's what gets you the money.
Demetrious Johnson
MoneyYouNumbersAlwaysAboutGets
We don't have parades for mathematicians, we have parades for astronauts. You don't think about all the thousands of people who worked on that capsule and crunched the numbers and were integral in getting that into space.
Theodore Melfi
SpacePeopleThinkYouNumbersWho
There's all these costs of war, and they're huge and long-lasting. It's not just the numbers CNN broadcasts. And we never want to pay the VA bill; we never want to pay the bill to take care of these warriors after we applaud their sacrifice.
Debra Granik
SacrificeWarCareTake CareNumbers
In a cashless society, the cash has been converted into numbers, into signals, into electronic currents. In short: Information replaces cash.
Sarah Jeong
SocietyShortInformationNumbers
There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.
David Walliams
MusicWordsComedyMagicNumbers
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
PeopleGamePictureCreateNumbers
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
Conor Oberst
SoulNumbersMustMemorizeNine
I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.
Paul Begala
WinLoseNumbersComfortableLead
I do oppose repealing Obamacare, because it's working for growing numbers of previously uninsured Americans.
Bob Beckel
NumbersGrowingBecauseWorking
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
TimeYearPhoneNumbersKnowSaid
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
Auberon Herbert
NumbersOthersOverRightsTake
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
James C. Maxwell
WorldRulesNumbersSaidQuantity
As an immigrant, my wish is that we fix immigration. At Sequoia, we've backed a number of exceptional founders that were born abroad but started their careers in the Valley. They've created immense value, but more importantly, massive numbers of jobs locally, nationally and globally.
Alfred Lin
ValueImmigrationWishBornNumbers
Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
WomenImpossibleNumbersMinority
Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Growing UpLongIndiaNumbersUp
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Francis Hutcheson
HappinessBestActionNumbersWhich
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