Quantity Quotes

Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less concerned with the product than with the artisan.

It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration.

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.

It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up!

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.

The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

Yeah.” Rhage sighed. “All I want is one good female. But I guess I’ll settle for quantity until I find her. Life just sucks, doesn’t it?

Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.

Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a very major role in producing the Great Depression.

In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.

Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it.

James was truly an unknown quantity. He was really, physically drained in the spring and he got dinged in the fall. We brought him along slowly, but he has a great future. He's a natural receiver.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.

What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.