Amount Quotes
2570 Amount quotes by 1985 unique authors
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a…
— Winston Churchill
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Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel.
— Jude Bijou
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Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free…
— John F. Kennedy
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I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is…
— Mark Twain
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Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at…
— Bill Bryson
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The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against…
— Gloria Steinem
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To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman…
— Washington Irving
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An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right…
— Bertrand Russell
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A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if…
— Russell Baker
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It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money…
— James Fallows
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That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of…
— Barry McGee
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The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the…
— William Rounseville Alger
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The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
— Steven Moffat
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Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my…
— Albert Einstein
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Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
— John Philip Sousa
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The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and…
— Thornton Wilder
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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his…
— William Jennings Bryan
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Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.
— Linda Ellerbee
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The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that…
— Denis Norden
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No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.
— John Fowles
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When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good…
— John Stuart Mill
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