Veronica Roth Quotes

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

Whenever you can, count.

Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.

I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

I really love numbers.

A lot of people... use a calculator!

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

I was just kind of doing the math.

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.

"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16. Double it times three, we got 48. Which mean a whole lot of cream. Divide the profit by four. Subtract it by eight. We back to 16.

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

Seeing there is nothing that is so troublesome to mathematical practice, nor that doth more molest and hinder calculators, than the multiplications, divisions, square and cubical extractions of great numbers.... I began therefore to consider in my mind by what certain and ready art I might remove those hindrances.

You want 100% and 100% to make 200, instead of 50 and 50 making 100.

I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.