Quantity Quotes

520 quotes by 425 authors

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only… — James Goldsmith
Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned… — Isaac Newton
The more love we give away, the more we have left. The laws of love differ from the laws of arithmetic. Love hoarded dwindles, but… — John Templeton
. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a… — Kurt Vonnegut
The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When… — Richard Heinberg
It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and… — David Ricardo
In great quantity, madame. In great quantity. — Curnonsky
Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to… — Wendell Berry
The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent, it is… — Richard M. Nixon
In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the first elementary particle… — Antonino Zichichi
What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and… — Hans Blix
There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but… — J C Ryle
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to… — Jaron Lanier
In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of… — Walther Bothe
To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder. — David Ben-Gurion
Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen… — Gloria Gaither
Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things. — Karl Marx
Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the… — Aldous Huxley
Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right… — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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