Quantity Quotes · Page 6

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

— William Dean Howells

Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself.

— Julian Huxley

Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It's about value, not quantity.

— Jason Wu

You don't have to do a lot of quantity. It's the quality that counts.

— Bruno Zheng Wu

When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.

— Johannes Kepler

But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.

— Eva Herzigova

Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the…

— Artur Schnabel

Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and…

— Joseph Brodsky

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value…

— Anonymous

I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity…

— Carl Bernstein

I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well…

— Lydia Davis

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I…

— Emile Zola

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the…

— John Ashbery

I have a very, very healthy relationship with food in that I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I never restrict…

— Portia de Rossi

We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way,…

— John Adams

Working with passion is an engine that is unbelievable. A person with drive and passion does three times the job of another…

— Dov Seidman

There is no longer any question about the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diet. The greater the quantity and assortment…

— Joel Fuhrman

Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own…

— Karl Marx

The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for…

— Lee Smolin

From the standpoint of our spiritual development, it might be important for us to realize that we came from an unknown somewhere;…

— John Templeton

The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself,…

— Adam Smith

As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock…

— John Dickinson

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

— Mark Twain

I liked the fact DAKS was an unknown quantity. It's more like Gucci before Tom Ford got there. There's a lot you…

— Giles Deacon

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

— Voltaire

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

— Benjamin Franklin

Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good,…

— Bruce Mau

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

— Jean Rhys

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

— Zadie Smith

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

— Deepak Chopra

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

— Vivienne Westwood

A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.

— Haim Harari

I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality…

— Sharon Stone

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

— John Ruskin

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

— V. S. Naipaul

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

— Meister Eckhart

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

— Katherine Anne Porter

“It's better to do something with quality, no matter how long it takes you rather than do something mediocre, with constant quantity.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice