Amounts Quotes
402 quotes by 342 authors
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When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away…
— Christopher Paolini
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Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being…
— Robert Fulghum
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In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my…
— Richard Branson
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All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person…
— Michael Ende
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I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when…
— Ben Goldacre
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It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.
— Jenny Lawson
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It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it here.…
— Margaret Atwood
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If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances…
— Andy Rooney
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In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half…
— Michael Pollan
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
— Seneca the Younger
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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
— Maya Angelou
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The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred…
— Mark Twain
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Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve…
— Brian Tracy
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The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff.
— Ruzwana Bashir
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing…
— Dan Ariely
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We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past…
— Cary Fowler
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If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous…
— Joseph Rykwert
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Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They…
— Jane Poynter
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