Quantity Quotes

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.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

Number is different from quantity.

– Gregory Bateson

I’ve discovered that sheer quantity doesn’t necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

– James Hetfield

Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it is not widely distributed.

– Joseph Brodsky

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

– Alice James

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

– Emile Zola

Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

– P. J. O’Rourke

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.

– David Ricardo

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

– Charles Francis Richter

It’s quantity, not quality.

– Dean Ween

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

– Lewis Thompson Preston

Life isn’t about quantity, it’s about quality.

– Malorie Blackman

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.

– Walther Bothe