| "Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe." »Flannery O'Connor |
| "The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect." »Sam Ewig |
| "The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." »Napolean Hill |
| "How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "There are two kinds of men who never amount to much those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else." »Cyrus H. Curtis |
| "I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something I don't know where I would be without it." »Thomas Mann |
| "You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think." »Mortimer Adler |
| "No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination." »Ben Gaye, III |
| "The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way." »Samuel Butler |
| "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts." »Henry Adams |
| "It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." »Jerry Seinfeld |
| "I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true." »Derek Curtis Bok |
| "No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one." »Archibald Wavell |
| "The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities." »Lord Acton |
| "No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals." »Henry P. Fairchild |
| "Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none." »I Ching |
| "Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it." »Stephen Vizinczey |
| "I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters." »Mother Theresa |
| "The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to." »Harry S Truman |
| "It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore." »Alex Carey |
| "Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus." »Walter Stegner |
| "Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents." »Ezra Loomis Pound |
| "Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerably amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and convince his employer that he is going at a good price." »Frederick Winslow Taylor |
| "Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself What is my truest intention Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness." »Sarah McLachlan |
| "A reasonable amount o' fleas is good fer a dog-keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe." »Edward Noyes Westcott |
| "When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income." »Plato |
| "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong." »Albert Einstein |
| "One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings." »Franklin Thomas |
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