Certain Quantity Quotes
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it… — Charles Babbage
- Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. — Henry Fielding
- Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of… — David Foster Wallace
- Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say… — Flann O'Brien
- And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men… — Arthur Schopenhauer
- To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an… — Viktor E. Frankl