Fixed Number

Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or number:

“The sky is silent too,
Hard as granite and as fixed as fate.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world’s total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)