Amount Quotes - page 2

Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. (Chuck Palahniuk)
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
Mortimer Adler
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal. View quote
Robert Silverberg
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. View quote
George Orwell
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available. View quote
Gregory Benford
Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society. View quote
Mila Kunis
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. (Steven Moffat)
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. View quote
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change. View quote
Claudia Schiffer
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. View quote
Winston Churchill
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. View quote
Winston Churchill
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. View quote
Albert Einstein
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. View quote
Ronald Reagan
There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. (67) View quote
Tom Perrotta
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever. (Amy Bloom)
There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred. View quote
Langston Hughes
No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20. View quote
Curt Weldon
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone. View quote
Cathy Freeman