Amount Quotes

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Success is measured by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives. Robert M. Hensel

Success is measured by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives. Robert M. Hensel

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.

I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh?

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

This is a big amount of cash to be giving back. The figures will be even higher in 2006, when the increases in dividend work through.

an amount of (explosives) ... in a certain location, the current difficulties could be swiftly overcome.

They've got a huge amount of media coverage and their big message is that the current administration has [messed up] the economy, ... I think we'll chew sideways until we get through this feeling of negativity and then go back to the upside.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is about five minutes more.

Governments are saying that 5 percent of gasoline must be replaced by ethanol, which is a huge amount. Where is it going to come from?

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Right now the amount of archeology that has been done out there is about the size of a house. Historically speaking, it is a diamond in the rough because you don't know what is there.

No amount of justice could bring them back or replace the emptiness I feel, but I'm glad he's off the streets. My girls are gone forever; they can't be a teacher or a lawyer like two of them dreamed of.

IF the parent is a drunkard, a gambler and a cheat, no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the young innocence. I will not allow them to be blamed. The fault lies wholly on the shoulders of the elders, the parents, and the leaders who shape the norms which they imbibe.

If anything I am doing makes this war end one day sooner, one life sooner, then there is no amount of time or sacrifice that goes into this (that) is not ultimately worth it.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

For instance, if he gets arrested on another felony within a certain amount of time it can be used to enhance the sentence on that new felony. It's not totally gone. But for the concern that's surfaced here, the retaining of his employment I would view that as an acquittal for those purposes.

People want to save money on fuel. They get better fuel mileage, they have the same amount of power.

We have paid the bulk of our arrears and we have a little amount to pay so that we can get this compulsory expulsion removed.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.

There are a huge amount of girls out there who want to play a contact sport, who play powder puff football and stuff like that. If you look on my teams, I've had little girls. I had a girl that was 4-foot-11 and she could tackle as well as anybody.

Each individual family gets a set amount where they can go out and buy food, clothing, whatever they need to get back into their homes so this really helps them get a new life going.