Quantity Quotes

520 quotes by 425 authors

For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day,… — Gordon Cooper
In terms of quantity, we've probably already reached the limit of what's feasible. I think a change of direction may be what's needed. — Masahiro Sakurai
A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity â€“ a value is not a weight. The reasons of the… — Alain de Benoist
Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me. — Anna Kavan
There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time. — Steve Schirripa
It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two… — Lyle Lovett
If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugsâ€¦ it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich… — Newt Gingrich
Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. — George W. Bush
How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great… — Edward Abbey
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in… — Sigmund Freud
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The… — John Stuart Mill
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. — George Boole
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of… — Samuel Beckett
There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slimeâ€”oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping… — Diana Wynne Jones
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of… — N. Scott Momaday
Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails,… — Julian Fellowes
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To… — Leonhard Euler
Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the… — Louis Nizer
Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of… — David Foster Wallace

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