Positive Real Number

Famous quotes containing the words positive, real and/or number:

    “I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pester’d the world ever convince me of the contrary.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men’s theories of women, as they always have done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it’s because she doesn’t quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man’s picture of woman to live up to.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)