Quantity Quotes - Page 2

• In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

  Hesiod

  Perseverance, Sweat, Long

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• We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Health, Kids, Commitment

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• Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds.

  John W. Campbell

  Science, Numbers, Effort

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• He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

  Francis Quarles

  Generosity, Giving, Quality

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions--divine: Contemplative, Practical; Moral: Ethical, Œconomical, Political”, p.71

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• The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

  Victor Hugo

  Civilization, Imagination, Quality

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Perfect, Heaven

  "The Counter-Revolution in Monetary Theory". Book by Milton Friedman, June 1, 1970.

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• I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Character, Thinking, People

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• It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Hands, Trying

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• The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

  Aristotle

  Water, Democracy, Littles

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2041, Princeton University Press

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• Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Reality, Quality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Aging, Conformity

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• Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity.

  Claudius

  Important, Quality, Wit

  "Fictional character: Claudius". "I, Claudius". Episode 11: "Fool's Luck", www.imdb.com. November 22, 1976.

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• The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Quality

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• It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspiring, Education, Littles

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever.

  John McPhee

  Years, Forever, Way

  John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.88, Macmillan

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• Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

  Gregory Bateson

  Fall, Toxic, Variables

  "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1979.

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• What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Writing, Law

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wisdom, Hard Work, Maturity

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• I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

  Charles Dickens

  Trust, Honesty, Business

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.11724, Delphi Classics

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• The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

  Sylvia Earle

  Enormous Quantities, Two, Oil

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

  Don Marquis

  Quality, Needs, Too Much

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• I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

  Reba McEntire

  Thinking, Quality Not Quantity, Special

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• I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

  James Patterson

  Children, Believe, Book

  Scholastic Book Fairs Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Paris, Intellectual, Wish

  "A singular writer". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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