Quantity Quotes
520 quotes by 425 authors
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The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to…
— Tom Robbins
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In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing.…
— Saul Bellow
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Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of…
— Walter Scott
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Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.
— Lisa Kleypas
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We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to…
— J D Salinger
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You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember
— Alexandra Adornetto
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The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending…
— Michael Lewis
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Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.
— Joanne Greenberg
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Love is a quality, not a quantity.
— Vanna Bonta
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You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away…
— Kathryn Lasky
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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
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I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may…
— Gore Vidal
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Yeah.†Rhage sighed. “All I want is one good female. But I guess I’ll settle for quantity until I find her. Life just sucks, doesn’t…
— J R Ward
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But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at…
— Thomas M. Disch
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I can make some calls. There is a guy. Dagfinn Heyerdahl. He used to be with Norse Heritage Foundation." Norse Heritage Foundation wasn't so much…
— Ilona Andrews
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We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run…
— Pablo Picasso
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I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss.…
— Winston Churchill
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I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are…
— Derek Landy
Who Wrote These Quantity Quotes
425 authors contributed a total of 520 Quantity Quotes, led by these top contributors: