Quantities Quotes

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.

They continued but six days under this course, having consumed the quantities that could be spared.

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.

Black holes, black holes, black holes. We're seeing them early in the universe, in huge sizes, in much greater quantities than some of us expected, and we've discovered new classes of black holes.

There is the constant smell of tar, oil continues to flow freely in small quantities in the drains and if you are asthmatic then you would have real problems.

The infected computer began generating parasitic traffic in very large quantities that led to an overload of the RTS network's base routers. As a result, the useful traffic - the data entering the system and leaving it - was not processed.

It might be easier than feeding large quantities of hay. But it also would require them to have some fences still in place.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

We still have snow shovels left. We still have salt left -- in limited quantities. It's going to go fast.

There's no science whatsoever to this stuff. You take sugar and caffeine in large quantities and you get energy. All that other stuff is urban legend.

Fires may behave differently because homes today typically contain larger quantities and different types of materials than before. This means you need as much early warning as possible to evacuate safely. Properly installed and maintained smoke alarms remain the most effective way to protect you and your family from the risk of fire.