Quantity Quotes

520 quotes by 425 authors

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
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
Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first… — Marianne Wiggins
A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right — Neil Peart
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if… — Margaret Atwood
There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a… — Virginia Woolf
First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. — John O'Donohue
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry,… — Anne Bronte
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. — Victor Hugo
Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity. — Wendell Berry
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge… — Charles Bukowski
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And… — William Shakespeare
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else. — Zadie Smith
I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly. — Jodi Picoult
I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.… — Chaim Potok
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We… — Tom Waits
He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any… — J C Ryle
People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of… — Susan Sontag

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