Amount Quotes

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.

It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.

I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.

If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

I also believe that most of the emerging economies have a fairly large amount of foreign exchange reserves, relative to 10 years ago.

A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.

Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to do together.

I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?

Internet is radio for a lot of people. It's a place to get music and hear music, and no amount of clamping down will change that.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding into their homes than you did at the time of the framing.

I put a lot of time and effort into the exercise I get, the amount of rest and sleep I get, and the amount I eat. And I think those three things are really kind of my wellness and health foundation.

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

I love energy. I love it. And I pursue it, and I want more of it. Physical and mental energy, to me, are the greatest riches of human life. And TM is like a free account of an endless amount of it.

I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.

My childhood best friend is an anesthesiologist. It's the least amount of human interaction for a doctor. I don't think you can get that burned out on it.

Lifestyle is not an amount; it's a practice.

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.

It's very early in the market. I don't want to pretend I know exactly how this rolls out. But there's been an enormous amount of interest.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.

Weather patterns over the next 20 or 30 years are going to be determined by the amount of CO2 that is up there now

It sucks to think about, honestly, but when you really consider the resources that it takes to press vinyl records, or the amount of gas that it takes to tour, it's really quite scary.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.

The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.