Quotes About Amount

To quantify the "benefit" side of the equation, a dollar amount is assigned to each saved human life. As calculated by the Urban Institute in 1991, you are worth $2.7 million.

A scholastic-career-ending amount. A definitely arrestable, criminal record amount.

information costs," is not the way to maximize one's investment. The true maximizer would determine just how much information seeking was the amount needed to lead to a very good decision.

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

As soon as you add an intensifier, you're turning an all-or-none dichotomy into a graduated scale.

When one loads hay onto a wagon, it can be any amount, even a couple of pitchforkfuls. But when one loads the wagon with hay, the implication is that the wagon is full.36 This subtle difference, which linguists call the holism effect, can be seen with the other locative verbs:

The amount of sanctifying and special grace bestowed by a Sacrament depends chiefly on the disposition of the recipient.

Writers' rooms are terrifying. You take someone whose never done this before, and this is their life's dream that is about to happen or not about to happen - that is an amazing amount of pressure to have.

To be very honest, my reason for getting away from 'Pepsi Battle of the Bands' was because I was on tour. I wanted to be on tour, and the amount I was asking for, they said that they couldn't pay it.

We generate a ludicrous amount of trades in $1 to $5 stocks. Because we're free, we're the only place where you can day trade stuff like that.

I am astonished by the amount and quality of love that is available if we will ask, and participate and show up for life.

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

I prefer creatures with the proper amount of legs. Two or four are good. Six, eight, or none...that's just not right.

It's amazing the footprint WWE has around the globe. When you look at the scope of the amount of live events they run, it's mind-boggling.

There are a lot more teams in the Spanish league, and the biggest transformation came in the English women's league when the amount of teams got cut down.

There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.

The gaming enthusiast that buys a tremendous amount of games is truly insatiable.

Obama's numbers fell by a slightly larger amount over his first few months because he enjoyed much more support right at the start from Republicans, support that eroded quickly.

It's a crazy - crazy - amount of talent on 'Smash.'

I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.

It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly.

Messi's start to 2015 has been unrivalled. His efficiency in front of goal and the amount of goals he has scored cannot be bettered.

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

That's how the Pell Grant system works, in that you get a flat dollar amount, and you can use it for tuition or room and board.