The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.
David Rockefeller

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
David Rockefeller

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham

Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world.
Katherine Dunham

We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
Katherine Dunham

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.
Bobby Orr

We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
Dmitri Mendeleev

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
Jim Henson

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham

I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.
Bon Scott

Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular.
Mary-Kate Olsen

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
Abu Bakar Bashir

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
Courtney Love

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.
Helena Bonham Carter

How great in number are the little minded men.
Titus Maccius Plautus

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.
Ivan Pavlov

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
Buffalo Bill

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.
Tim McGraw

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead