Positive Real Number

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

    It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil—far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word “human” disappears from the race.
    Jill Tweedie (b. 1936)

    The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
    Max Lerner (b. 1902)

    The best number for a dinner party is two—myself and a dam’ good head waiter.
    Nubar Gulbenkian (1896–1972)