Quantities Quotes

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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate… — Ambrose Bierce
We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities. — John Cage
What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the… — John Ashbery
Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers. — Max Planck
Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another -- killing… — John Muir
Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that soon… — Paul Robeson
If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying… — Emma Goldman
Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work? — William Allingham
The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed… — Sylvia Earle
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in… — Walter Savage Landor
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. — Rainer Maria Rilke
I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense… — Ben Stein
Who doesn't know about Bollywood? After all, we churn out movies in such great quantities every year! People across the globe know Shekhar Kapur. — Arjun Rampal
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what… — Douglas Rushkoff
Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes.… — Melissa Bank
(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart. — Lorrie Moore
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol. — Aldous Huxley
This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity… — Robert Bolt
Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from… — Peter Kropotkin
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness. — Oscar Wilde

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