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Quotes About Quantity

That's why weight and metabolism are not math problems. The quality of the food you eat matters much more than the quantity.
~ Mark Hyman
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.
~ Unknown
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
~ Imelda Marcos
Love, even if it is caring and great in quantity, can be wasted.
~ Unknown
Your people! Six boys and seven girls! You who are worthy to rule a kingdom." "Not unless I am worthy to rule them. Few or many, it's all one, once one has put oneself in the god's hand.
~ Mary Renault
I bought a generic cat. It only had five lives.
~ Unknown
Todo lo que en extensión parece ganarse, piérdese en intensidad»;
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Todo lo que en extensión parece ganarse, piérdese en intensidad.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
It might be true that it is "quality time" that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Unfortunately, while free time might be a necessary condition for happiness, by itself it is not sufficient to guarantee it. Learning how to use it beneficially turns out to be more difficult than expected. Nor does it seem that more of a good thing is necessarily better; as is true of so many other things, what enriches life in small quantities might impoverish it in larger doses.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Although average Americans have plenty of free time, and ample access to leisure activities, they do not, as a result, experience flow often. Potentiality does not imply actuality, and quantity does not translate into quality.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Because in our way of writing numbers the position of an integer determines the quantity it represents, the principle involved is called positional notation.
~ Morris Kline
Motion and transformation take place in both quality and quantity--in the very substance of things.
~ Unknown
We seem to be forgetting to ask the time honored question of "are we sacrificing quality for quantity?" When in history has everyone been necessary for revolution? How did we get locked in this nonsense, a posture people take toward revolutionary movements when they really do not want to act? "One man you can trust is better than an army of cowards."6 Too
~ Unknown
Your opinion doesn't count. Your fond hopes and fantasies of Paradigms Found don't count. What counts is the quality and the quantity of the evidence.
~ Natalie Angier
And Bible reading is an important spiritual practice but I wonder if quantity is everything and I wonder how we might measure the Bible's effect in our lives. After all, even Ellen White warned that "there is much reading of the Bible that is without profit and in many cases a positive injury." 1
~ Unknown
Intelligence does not have quantity or magnitude, except as we believe that it does. And why do we believe that it does? Because we have tools that imply that this is what the mind is like.
~ Neil Postman
Thirty million bricks were needed for the project, of which two and a half million had already been ordered.
~ Unknown
sheer volume of the rooms
~ Unknown
A casserole of oxtail and prunes. This gives a perfect quantity for two. I would have done the recipe for four, but can't imagine ever getting four oxtail-loving people around the table at the same time.
~ Nigel Slater
pins and firkins and hogsheads, faucets, spiles and spigots not to mention the kilderkin, tierce and puncheon.
~ Unknown
security guard to Ikuto: Man... how much metal do you have on you?!
~ Unknown
A huge quantity of sensor log files were stored in the RI array, almost all of them containing negative information.
~ Peter F. Hamilton