Quantity Quotes - Page 6

• Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

  William Allingham

  Work, Men, Feelings

  William Allingham (1907). “William Allingham: a diary”

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• The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less.

  Thomas Paine

  Years, Purpose, Debt

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface”, p.179

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• Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

  Alan Greenspan

  Gold, Derivatives, Commodity

  Alan Greenspan's Testimony Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, www.federalreserve.gov. July 24, 1998.

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• Today, the issue isn’t quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Issues, Quality

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• Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.

  Jacques Barzun

  Mean, Men, Race

  Jacques Barzun (1965). “Race: a study in superstition”

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• Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

  David Ricardo

  Two, Scarcity, Commodity

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.2

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• We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

  Alan Chadwick

  Quality, Firsts, Needs

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• Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, Reading, Indulge In

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• The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.61

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• What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

  John Ashbery

  Music, Argument, Ability

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• You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.

  William Hurt

  Three, Roles, Looks

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• I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity.

  Sharon Stone

  Quality, Want, Realizing

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• The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.

  Herbert Read

  Two, Luxury, Space

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• So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States.

  Joseph Cirincione

  Iran, Issues, United States

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• The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Society, Quality

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• Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers.

  Max Planck

  Science, Numbers, Chemistry

  Max Planck (2013). “Treatise on Thermodynamics”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Action, Force, Whole

  Hermann von Helmholtz (1873). “Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects”, p.320

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• Today evil spirits are seen as negativity which floats around the Earth in large quantities.

  Scott Cunningham

  Evil, Negativity, Earth

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• Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Freedom, People, Dangerous

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.991, Library of America

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• Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.

  William Powell

  Believe, Bananas, Psychedelic

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, chapter one, "Drugs", 1971.

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• I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Learning, Grease, Delight

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.81

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• I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

  Peter Greenaway

  Things In Life, Two, Together

  "Fictional character: Nagiko". "The Pillow Book", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

  Marcel Proust

  Women, Squares, Roots

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.193, Modern Library

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• Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

  Isaac Asimov

  Love, Tinkering, Seems

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.

  Milton Friedman

  Target, Use, Today

  Financial Times (UK), June 7, 2003.

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