I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
Abraham Verghese
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein
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
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames
A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.
Christy Turlington
And what is the greatest number? Number one.
David Hume
Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
Ellsworth Huntington
The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.
Ezra Taft Benson
Playing with Coutinho is easy. He's a very quick player who dribbles well. He knows how to play out wide, and my job is not just to go past and help him: it's also to give the greatest number of passes to him in space around the opposition right-back.
Filipe Luis
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Francis Hutcheson
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.
John Glenn
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.
Mary Matalin
I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.
Mauricio Macri
But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.
I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we're out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It's harder to find defensive players.