Amount Quotes
2570 Amount quotes by 1985 unique authors
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Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets…
— Alain de Botton
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Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of…
— Ian Mcewan
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How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
— C.S. Lewis
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No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one.…
— Jeannette Walls
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The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
— Mary Renault
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No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount…
— Sándor Márai
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There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely…
— Terry Pratchett
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The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
— William Shakespeare
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The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and…
— Agatha Christie
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In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place…
— Richard P. Feynman
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I want leisure to read—an immense amount.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the…
— O. Henry
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No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.
— Meher Baba
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I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
— Dashiell Hammett
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I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in…
— Ally Carter
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Mogi: Greg Parker left the hideout a while ago and bought a large amount of food. He's heading back to the hideout now. And I've…
— Tsugumi Ohba
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All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we…
— John Grisham
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain…
— Oscar Wilde
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Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single…
— Jack London
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Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly…
— Ian Mcewan
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[God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the…
— George W. Bush
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a…
— Jacqueline Carey
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