Quotes about Billion

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business Votes: 3

A new report shows that medicare and Medicaid made more than $50 Billion in bad payments during fiscal year 2011. Under Obamacare, that'll become known as 'Tuesday.' Votes: 3

The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more. Votes: 3

Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit! Votes: 3

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything. Votes: 1

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. Votes: 1

We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number. Votes: 1

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. Votes: 1

It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think. Votes: 1

There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water. Votes: 1

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. Votes: 1

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. Votes: 1

India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions. Votes: 1

My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water. Votes: 1

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream! Votes: 1

I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. Votes: 1

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe. Votes: 1

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete. Votes: 1

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time. Votes: 1

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq. Votes: 1

Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet. Votes: 1

In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend. Votes: 1

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. Votes: 1

It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6,000 billion neutrinos coming from nuclear reactions inside the sun whiz through my body, almost all of which will travel right through the earth without interruption. Votes: 1

And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon. Votes: 1

One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us. Votes: 1

The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite. Votes: 1

The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments. Votes: 1

American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious. Votes: 1

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam. Votes: 1

Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion. Votes: 1

By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear. Votes: 0

Thank God there aren't 1.6 billion Trumps. Votes: 0

There's 7 billion, 46 million people on the planet Votes: 0

I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese. Votes: 0

It is a $270 billion cut in medicare Votes: 0

I run a multi billion dollar company Votes: 0

A billion saved is a billion earned. Votes: 0

A billion people died on the news tonight. Votes: 0

The first billion is a helluva lot harder. Votes: 0

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq. Votes: 0

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime. Votes: 0

Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people. Votes: 0

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020. Votes: 0

You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation. Votes: 0

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make. Votes: 0

Of our 49 billion, we haven't moved any to Bitcoin Votes: 0

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food. Votes: 0

A billion dollars isnt what it used to be. Votes: 0

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right? Votes: 0

We can deploy a half a billion more solar panels. Votes: 0

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers. Votes: 0

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful. Votes: 0

Obamacare, without a single Republican vote, cut $700 billion out of Medicare. Votes: 0

Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms. Votes: 0

....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be. Votes: 0

More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water. Votes: 0

I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts. Votes: 0

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. Votes: 0

Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion. Votes: 0

She was a universe holding a billion galaxies in her heart. Votes: 0

One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight. Votes: 0

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years. Votes: 0

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like. Votes: 0

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services Votes: 0

Advertising is a ten billion dollar a year misunderstanding with the public Votes: 0

I dream of a Digital India where 1.2 billion Connected Indians drive Innovation. Votes: 0

1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight. Votes: 0

A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars. Votes: 0

The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance. Votes: 0

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like." Votes: 0

Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA. Votes: 0

I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it. Votes: 0

Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today. Votes: 0

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services. Votes: 0

There is inherent value in sharing a billion people are doing it. Votes: 0

Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day. Votes: 0

Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA." Votes: 0

If I had a billion dollars I would...oh wait...already do. Votes: 0

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it? Votes: 0

1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies. Votes: 0

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001. Votes: 0

Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year. Votes: 0

If Bill Gates is worth $30 billion then a good haircut must cost $31 billion Votes: 0

I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica. Votes: 0

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. Votes: 0

We are on a planet of seven billion people, five billion mobile subscriptions. Votes: 0

Twitter is currently valued at $8 billion, or $1 for every hour it has wasted. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It's a billion dollar industry. Votes: 0

The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is more than $4 billion Votes: 0

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars. Votes: 0

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues. Votes: 0

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders. Votes: 0

The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people. Votes: 0

Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That's, like, two billion people. Votes: 0

Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down... Votes: 0

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. Votes: 0

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while Votes: 0

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran. Votes: 0

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created. Votes: 0

How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right? Votes: 0

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera! Votes: 0

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare Votes: 0

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend. Votes: 0

If I drop a billion dollars here, It will make a million People happy." Votes: 0

Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies. Votes: 0

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year. Votes: 0

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records. Votes: 0

My soap operas have been seen by a billion people all around the world. Votes: 0

Don't marry a man because he has a billion dollars. Divorce him for it." Votes: 0

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. Votes: 0

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry? Votes: 0

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day. Votes: 0

No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn't exist. Votes: 0

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion. Votes: 0

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion. Votes: 0

We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served. Votes: 0

If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers. Votes: 0

The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people. Votes: 0

The terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology. Votes: 0

Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes. Votes: 0

I value your friendship. I value it at one billion dollars. We should sell it. Votes: 0

I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims. Votes: 0

Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?It doesn't. Votes: 0

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family. Votes: 0

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. Votes: 0

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. Votes: 0

In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist. Votes: 0

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth. Votes: 0

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently. Votes: 0

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010. Votes: 0

The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history. Votes: 0

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest. Votes: 0

I started Dell 28 yrs ago with $1000. Revenues in 1984 were $6 million. Last year $62.1 billion. Impossible is nothing. Votes: 0

It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money. Votes: 0

In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs. Votes: 0

Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ. Votes: 0

If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years. Votes: 0

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more. Votes: 0

He [Barack Obama] is been boffo at fundraising - 220 fundraisers, and he raised something approaching $1 billion. Votes: 0

Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits. Votes: 0

The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide. Votes: 0

They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective. Votes: 0

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness. Votes: 0

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues Votes: 0

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Votes: 0

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day. Votes: 0

There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do. Votes: 0

When you get $1 billion of free advertising, it's hard not to have anybody buy the product. Votes: 0

Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years. Votes: 0

You [Hillary Clinton] ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen. They don't know. It's gone, $6 billion. Votes: 0

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years. Votes: 0

This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over. Votes: 0

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year. Votes: 0

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. Votes: 0

I want to direct $10 billion to create a make it in America partnership to support American manufacturing. Votes: 0

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation. Votes: 0

One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it? Votes: 0

We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear. Votes: 0

US Airways made an $8 billion bid for Delta, including $4 billion in cash and $4 billion in lost luggage. Votes: 0

An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution Votes: 0

It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese. Votes: 0

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget. Votes: 0

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline." Votes: 0

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart. Votes: 0

This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things. Votes: 0

If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans. Votes: 0

It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons. Votes: 0

It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it. Votes: 0

The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas Votes: 0

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. Votes: 0

I climbed like a billion stairs... its not like I can take them two at a time. Votes: 0

But if USA has 1.3 billion people, USA would have the same human rights problem just like China. Votes: 0

Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house. Votes: 0

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem. Votes: 0

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline. Votes: 0

When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode. Votes: 0

Under Hillary Clinton, the world's largest ever arms deal was made with Saudi Arabia, [worth] more than $80 billion. Votes: 0

How is it that we have over 6 billion people in the world and half of them feel alone? Votes: 0

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day." Votes: 0

There are 6 billion people in the world. It's hard to find the one person who's right for you. Votes: 0

By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people. Votes: 0

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago? Votes: 0

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it. Votes: 0

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy. Votes: 0

Take your million smiles through billion miles; life will never get boring for you even for a while. Votes: 0

...like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die. Votes: 0

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care. Votes: 0

It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget. Votes: 0

If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light. Votes: 0

There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter. Votes: 0

How is it that we have over 6 billion people in the world and half of them feel alone~? Votes: 0

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day. Votes: 0

More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it. Votes: 0

Personally, I choose a rice-based probiotic drink that delivers fifty billion active L. acidophilus and L. casei bacteria." Votes: 0

Every penny of the $7 billion going to Africa as per Obama will be stolen - corruption is rampant! Votes: 0

President Obama has pledged $3 billion to aid poor nations. All of that $3 billion is going to the United States. Votes: 0

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there. Votes: 0

Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won't feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country. Votes: 0

13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding. Votes: 0

You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle. Votes: 0

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses. Votes: 0

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards. Votes: 0

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price. Votes: 0

Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders. Votes: 0

If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat. Votes: 0

What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across. Votes: 0

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth. Votes: 0

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. Votes: 0

I do think, you know, you don't have to have 30 billion, but you have a certain level of freedom. Votes: 0

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo. Votes: 0

When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections. Votes: 0

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church. Votes: 0

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth. Votes: 0

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself Votes: 0

There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions. Votes: 0

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia? Votes: 0

There are 7 billion people in the world, and 5.1 billion of them have a cell phone, and 4 billion have a toothbrush. Votes: 0

The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there. Votes: 0

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right. Votes: 0

It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans. Votes: 0

Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words. Votes: 0

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system? Votes: 0

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away. Votes: 0

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people. Votes: 0

People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process. Votes: 0

Let me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion. Votes: 0

...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely. Votes: 0

I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion Votes: 0

If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool. Votes: 0

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds. Votes: 0

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building. Votes: 0

I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars! Votes: 0

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune. Votes: 0

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. Votes: 0

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor. Votes: 0

Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people. Votes: 0

You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's. Votes: 0

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family. Votes: 0

The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes. Votes: 0

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years. Votes: 0

Certainly would never have made that horrible, disgusting, absolutely incompetent deal with Iran where they get $150 billion. They're a terrorist nation. Votes: 0

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists. Votes: 0

The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit. Votes: 0

In one month, the Small Business Administration does $1 billion of loans and guarantees for businesses; many of those are women-owned businesses. Votes: 0

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems. Votes: 0

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe." Votes: 0

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation. Votes: 0

At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0. Votes: 0

Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails. Votes: 0

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty. Votes: 0

You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else. Votes: 0

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe. Votes: 0

Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts. Votes: 0

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales." Votes: 0

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it. Votes: 0

Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life. Votes: 0

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people. Votes: 0

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important. Votes: 0

You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight. Votes: 0

We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world. Votes: 0

Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts." Votes: 0

I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers. Votes: 0

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. Votes: 0

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports." Votes: 0

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. Votes: 0

The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn." Votes: 0

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform." Votes: 0

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform. Votes: 0

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns. Votes: 0

...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. Votes: 0

We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants. Votes: 0

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people." Votes: 0

The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields. Votes: 0

We are already eating less animal foods since a few years ago, but we are still eating 8-9 billion animals per year. Votes: 0

It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger. Votes: 0

I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence. Votes: 0

Never undervalue your most precious assets. Your parents can have not one dollar in their pockets, and still be worth a billion. Votes: 0

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. Votes: 0

However life started, once established, it persisted for over 3.5 billion years and evolved from microbial slime to the sophistication of human civilization. Votes: 0

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work Votes: 0

Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job. Votes: 0

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports. Votes: 0

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song. Votes: 0

I know that there are a billion girls out there that would kill to be in my position, and I never forget that. Votes: 0

If this universe is the House of God, then I must say it is quite a dark house despite several hundred billion suns! Votes: 0

I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs. Votes: 0

We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on. Votes: 0

I want a billion people to know my name as well as they know their own. I want to clone myself to fame. Votes: 0

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. Votes: 0

In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Votes: 0

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos. Votes: 0

To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register. Votes: 0

Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox. Votes: 0

Let us not forget that we have two governmental reserve funds: the Reserve Fund and the National Wellbeing Fund that represent together $100 billion. Votes: 0

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day. Votes: 0

I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate. Votes: 0

The Pope is 77 years old and he's in charge of a billion people. All I have to do is put 11 on the field. Votes: 0

Santa is having a tough time this year. Last year he deducted eight billion for gifts, and the IRS wants an itemized list Votes: 0

The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Votes: 0

There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5 billion. Votes: 0

The annual output of carbon emissions is 25 billion tonnes and Global Cool's goal is to reduce it by one billion tonnes a year. Votes: 0

It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt. Votes: 0

Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions. Votes: 0

Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects." Votes: 0

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it. Votes: 0

Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects. Votes: 0

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live. Votes: 0

The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer. Votes: 0

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream! Votes: 0

There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels. Votes: 0

The last I checked, 'Titanic' worldwide has grossed $1.3 billion. Imagine how much more it would have grossed if I had gotten the sky correct, Votes: 0

Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he wasn't kidding. Votes: 0

The Democrats - Democrats on board, the Congress said tax policy.But their tax policy was pretty bad, that added $800 billion to the deficit. Votes: 0

If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart. Votes: 0

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across. Votes: 0

Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster. Votes: 0

The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth. Votes: 0

You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office. Votes: 0

You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office." Votes: 0

The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined. Votes: 0

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise. Votes: 0

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed. Votes: 0

We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being. Votes: 0

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars. Votes: 0

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple. Votes: 0

The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget Votes: 0

A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way Votes: 0

The international community . . . allows nearly 3 billion people almost half of all humanity to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth. Votes: 0

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet. Votes: 0

It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment. Votes: 0

.....there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times. Votes: 0

The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools. Votes: 0

We plan to spend 20 billion lari ($12 billion) from the budget in the next four years on implementation of all tasks presented in our new programme. Votes: 0

We gave [Iran] $1.7 billion in cash, which is unheard of, and we put the money up and we have really nothing to show for it. Votes: 0

With an estimated population of nine billion people by 2050, we cannot continue to consume resources at the same rate and maintain our quality of life. Votes: 0

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them. Votes: 0

I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion. Votes: 0

The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally. Votes: 0

In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day Votes: 0

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today. Votes: 0

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. Votes: 0

One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever. Votes: 0

I was living in a house with five guys, eating their leftovers when they weren't watching. I went from that to having $1-billion-plus on paper. Votes: 0

It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people. Votes: 0

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services. Votes: 0

Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy. Votes: 0

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time. Votes: 0

Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity. Votes: 0

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me? Votes: 0

I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so. Votes: 0

...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth. Votes: 0

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded Votes: 0

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it. Votes: 0

One of the world's great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine. Votes: 0

As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed. Votes: 0

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion." Votes: 0

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want. Votes: 0

Business money reattaches worldwide Deep inside stops the diamond rocks In a million world, billion world, quitrillion world Rap moves on to the year three thousand Votes: 0

There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other. Votes: 0

On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity. Votes: 0

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers. Votes: 0

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly." Votes: 0

Many people think that buying a fake product is harmless, but counterfeiting is estimated to result in annual losses of over $20 billion dollars to American companies. Votes: 0

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly. Votes: 0

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. Votes: 0

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion. Votes: 0

Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years. Votes: 0

We saw recently that Donald Trump has gotten now over $4 billion in free media exposure, Hillary Clinton over $2 billion, and of course I've had almost none. Votes: 0

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly. Votes: 0

There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die? Votes: 0

Finally we got some good news about the economy. Barack Obama got $800 billion to rescue the economy. All I can say is, 'Thank you, Oprah.' Votes: 0

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box. Votes: 0

Sometimes all the 'marketing' insight in the world can't move a client, but the creation of a truly great brand name can become a billion-dollar idea! Votes: 0

I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed. Votes: 0

Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are. Votes: 0

If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion? Votes: 0

There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages. Votes: 0

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. Votes: 0

In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however. Votes: 0

For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions. Votes: 0

Now remember, we've already done more than a billion dollars worth of cuts. We've already done that. So we need to get some credit for that. Votes: 0

That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden. Votes: 0

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion. Votes: 0

Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus. Votes: 0

There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see! Votes: 0

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops. Votes: 0

Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations. Votes: 0

The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year. Votes: 0

A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead. Votes: 0

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions. Votes: 0

I have $100 billion… You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime… Votes: 0

... something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is an open question. Votes: 0

Facebook has revealed their estimated net worth - $96 billion. That's almost as much money as businesses lose every year from their employees wasting time looking at Facebook. Votes: 0

President Obama is launching a new $6 billion space policy that will ultimately take astronauts to Mars. Of course, it's $6 billion and $45 if the astronauts have a carry-on. Votes: 0

When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on. Votes: 0

By the year 2040, the world's population is likely to increase by about 2 billion people, with also projected economic output will be up about 130 percent versus the year 2010. Votes: 0

80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein. Votes: 0

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically. Votes: 0

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region. Votes: 0

We need to start thinking about the Future of Food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment. Votes: 0

There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt. Votes: 0

The oceans that surround the world produce 185 billion tons of CO2 per annum. Man per annum only produces six billion tons, so what could possibly be the concern? Votes: 0

This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders. Votes: 0

Self-certification may look like a small vision but there cannot be a greater decision for a Government to trust the honesty of the 1.25 billion people of the country. Votes: 0

A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead Votes: 0

2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift. Votes: 0

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! Votes: 0

If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives. Votes: 0

The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package. Votes: 0

No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique. Votes: 0

We now have in our hands"”really, in our libraries"”the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years. Votes: 0

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed. Votes: 0

My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond? Votes: 0

The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent. Votes: 0

I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome. Votes: 0

The largest portion of our state budget is Health and Human Services. It will grow by approximately $500 million. A half a billion dollars is a very big number. Votes: 0

If Twitter is worth seven billion next month, I'm happy for them to be worth six billion and spend a billion making it safer for people, for example. Votes: 0

At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion. Votes: 0

We have trouble feeding, providing fresh, clean water, medicines, fuel for the six and a half billion. It's going to be a stretch to do it for nine. Votes: 0

Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares. Votes: 0

My lucky number is four billion. That doesn't come in real handy when you're gambling. "Come on, four billion! Darn! Seven. Not even close. I need more dice." Votes: 0

I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees. Votes: 0

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation. Votes: 0

If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich. Votes: 0

Each proposed B-2 stealth bomber costs three times more than it would if every part of the plane were made from solid gold. The cost is $2.3 billion each. Votes: 0

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period. Votes: 0

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better. Votes: 0

President Bush announced a billion dollar mission to the moon and Mars. He came up with a snappy new slogan - to drill where no man has drilled before. Votes: 0

Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has. Votes: 0

We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal. Votes: 0

Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has. Votes: 0

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved. Votes: 0

For CNBC, and for Wall Street, billion-dollar fines for violations of the law are just part of the price of doing business, along with litigation costs and 'compliance.' Votes: 0

We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place. Votes: 0

You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This is terrifying news to cows. Votes: 0

If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing. Votes: 0

But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways. Votes: 0

As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American. Votes: 0

I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time. Votes: 0

I built a net worth of more than $10 billion. I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did. Votes: 0

[Tim] Kaine, in Virginia, you know he wasn't popular?His first move as governor of Virginia was to raise taxes by 4 billion dollars. He was not popular in Virginia. Votes: 0

The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's part of a new initiative called, 'Operation Regret This In Five Years.' Votes: 0

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion. Votes: 0

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. Votes: 0

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. Votes: 0

It took us months of buying all the Coke stock we could to accumulate $1 billion worth - equal to 7% of the company. It's very hard to accumulate major positions. Votes: 0

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets. Votes: 0

For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin. Votes: 0

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent. Votes: 0

For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds. Votes: 0

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs. Votes: 0

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity. Votes: 0

If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done. Votes: 0

My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table. Votes: 0

If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope. Votes: 0

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. Votes: 0

Because there are 7 billion 47 million people on the planet And I have the audacity to think I matter I know it's a lie but I prefer it to the alternative Votes: 0

You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books. Votes: 0

The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country. Votes: 0

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars." Votes: 0

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions. Votes: 0

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it? Votes: 0

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner. Votes: 0

Most website developers say an aggregator website, such as what healthcare.gov is, could be built easily for a half a million dollars. They have spent a half a billion dollars. Votes: 0

Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew. Votes: 0

The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling. Votes: 0

Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances, Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution. Votes: 0

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. Votes: 0

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee. Votes: 0

You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes? Votes: 0

Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country? Votes: 0

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men. Votes: 0

The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people. Votes: 0

I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries. Votes: 0

Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be extinguished, the oceans will boil and evaporate away. Votes: 0

Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening. Votes: 0

If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars. Votes: 0

Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war. Votes: 0

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world. Votes: 0

You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'! Votes: 0

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world Votes: 0

New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut. Votes: 0

Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war." Votes: 0

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life. Votes: 0

If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them. Votes: 0

If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000. Votes: 0

Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it? Votes: 0

It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, six billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae. Votes: 0

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion. Votes: 0

When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion. Votes: 0

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him. Votes: 0

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century. Votes: 0

Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe. Votes: 0

Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you. Votes: 0

My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so. Votes: 0

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century." Votes: 0

I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs. Votes: 0

Tiger Woods is a billionaire. Do you know how much ass you can get with a billion dollars? I know guys with $20 and a pack of Newports who'd try to screw your whole neighborhood. Votes: 0

Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish. Votes: 0