Quotes About Quantity

Adding friends is not a race. 100 friends is ok. 300 is great. But 3000? Unless you are looking for a crowd to feed with two fish and five slices of bread.

There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity.

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.

Quantity has a quality all its own

We can measure the fine structure constant with very great precision, but so far none of our theories has provided an explanation of its measured value. One of the aims of superstring theory is to predict this quantity precisely. Any theory that could do that would be taken very seriously indeed as a potential 'Theory of Everything'.

The new culture. And they are indeed present and available, in exhausting quantity, but there is a curious tastelessness about them. A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.

It takes between 70,000 and 150,000 crocuses to make 2 pounds of saffron.

Yet even under a best case scenario, even with the new technologies, it will still take months to deliver large quantities of vaccine. In addition, much of the U.S. vaccine supply is manufactured outside the country; in a lethal pandemic, there is a question whether another government would allow its export before its own population was protected.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

reliable evidence indicates that the number was substantial.

would have required the skins of over 1,500 calves.

The beauty of the imagination is that it can discover such magnificent vastness inside a tiny space. Our culture is dominated by quantity. Even those who have plenty hunger for more and more. Everywhere around us, the reign of quantity extends and multiplies. Sadly the voyage of greed has all the urgency but no sense of destination. Desire becomes inflated and loses all sense of vision and proportion. When beauty becomes an acquisition it brings no delight.

How much is whiskey a gallon?" "I don't know," said Hughie. "I never get more than a half pint at a time myself—at one time that is. I figure you get a quart and right away you got friends. But you get a half pint and you can drink it in the lot before— well before you got a lot of folks around.

An integer means any whole number positive or negative including zero.

Our success in life is directly related to the quantity and quality of service we give.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."

Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces, because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

Exist? în univers o anumit? cantitate de via?? ?i o anumit? cantitate de moarte, ?i el – universul – procedeaz? ca un contabil care lucreaz? en gros, lui s?-i ias? mereu suma mare, totalul.

There was such a pile of them that Charles and his aides, when first they came into the chamber, expressed doubt that any single person could have written so much.)

Would you mind doing this last thing for me? Pack my box with fivedozen liquor jugs?