Quantity Quotes

520 quotes by 425 authors

Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with… — Leonard Maltin
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for… — Rene Descartes
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art. — Lawrence Watt-Evans
Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be… — Nassau William Senior
Because the one who by excellency of nature transcends all quantity and size and magnitude...has now...contracted himself into a quantity and size and has acquired… — John of Damascus
We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard. — Vance Havner
There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for… — Ian MacKaye
From the standpoint of our spiritual development, it might be important for us to realize that we came from an unknown somewhere; we brought with… — John Templeton
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of… — J. P. Guilford
Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing… — Edward Bernays
Lessen the quantity of unnecessary thoughts and allow more space for the energy of love to flow within you. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all its different compounds… — Stanislao Cannizzaro
A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them… — Justus von Liebig
The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. ... She always injects a small quantity of… — Ronald Ross
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing… — Edmund Burke
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. — Alice James
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was… — Robert Fitzgerald
The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language… — Thomas Malthus

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