Amount Quotes
2570 Amount quotes by 1985 unique authors
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Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency…
— Brené Brown
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My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically…
— Jon Richardson
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The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.
— Milan Kundera
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I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of…
— Jodi Picoult
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean…
— Oscar Wilde
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What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time…
— Hugh Prather
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A full-out rebellion would take a major amount of luck and coordination. The Tech Nos and Domotor looked at me, waiting. No one else would…
— Maria V. Snyder
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See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often." "No. Trust me, you…
— Rachel Caine
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You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.
— Maureen Johnson
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I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out...So,…
— Anne Ursu
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There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. (67)
— Tom Perrotta
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Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.
— Stephen King
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I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually…
— Ann Aguirre
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We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?
— Nick Hornby
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I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard…
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And…
— Rachel Cohn
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It’s brown.” So maybe I had the teeniest, tiniest, most infinitesimal amount of auburn in my hair. I was still a brunette. “It’s the lighting,”…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount…
— Terry Goodkind
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Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an…
— J D Salinger
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There are those rare people who function like human magnets, who are individually so attractive – or repellent, depending on the situation – that a…
— Daniel Wallace
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Something about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and graffitied. When it ends, no…
— Tammara Webber
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When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless…
— Roald Dahl
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A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.
— Lisa Kleypas
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