Quotes on Amount

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to be wanting for my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. O man, place not thy confidence in this present world!

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

Our policy is to concentrate holdings. We try to avoid buying a little of this or that when we are only lukewarm about the business or its price. When we are convinced as to attractiveness, we believe in buying worthwhile amounts.

Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.