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Source: A Stranger in My Grave

“Whoever was stupid was beneath worry or thought; you did not have to figure them out. This eliminated hundreds of people. In this life you had time only for a certain amount of thinking, and there was no need to waste any of it on people who were not threatening.”

People Thinking Needs Certain Worry Stupid Figures Amount Waste This Life Threatening

Book:A Garden of Earthly Delights

Source: A Garden of Earthly Delights

“I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. ... Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.”

Thinking Way Firsts Doe Different Country House Common Support Amount Fit Authority Vote Bottom Starting Priorities Common Sense Budgets Procedures

Author:Millicent Fenwick

“She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.”

Children Moments Lasts Certain Order Amount Rope

Book:Innocence and experience: stories

Source: Innocence and experience: stories

“When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.”

Ifs Different Would Be Form Universe Energy Dark Conditions Amount Fit Picks Environmental Size Jackets Dark Energy

Author:Brian Greene

“Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.”

Self Together Spirit Individual Interest Natural Responsibility Amount Discipline Instinct Ingredients Self Discipline Personal Responsibility Morale Interest In Others

Book:Survival

Source: Survival

“Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.”

Needs Long Water Amount

Author:Edna Buchanan

“Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances in the movies in a while. (Nobody even seems to neck in theaters any more.) ... when the mechanics and sadism quotients go up, the movie love interest goes dead, and the film just lies there, giving a certain amount of offense.”

Giving Seems Film Romance Lying Certain Interest Havens Amount Scene Theater Sexy Movie Necks Daring Offense Mechanic Convincing Sexually Movie Love Sadism

Author:Renata Adler

“Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.”

Culture Amount Wit Genuine Small Amounts

Author:Moses Harvey

“I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.”

Want Certain Amount Resilience Slides Crunch

Author:John Ashbery

“The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!”

“We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.”

Important Enough Time Numbers Amount Finite Heartbeat Enough Time Finite Number

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.”

World Way Firsts Ends Seems Order Choices Given Enjoy Forget Liberty Our Lives Amount Valuable Spending Certainty Settling Obsessed Earning Unlimited Holding On Questionable Earning Money

Author:Rolf Potts

“Hope. People want hope. We crave hope. We long for hope. Hope has been present since the very beginning. And almost in the worst situations of human history, you often find the greatest amount of hope. The very nature of the situation, the way stepped-on people created within them even more hope than when things were going fine. Hope has always been around.”

People Way Want Humans Long Has Beens Situation Worst Fine Amount Crave Human History Worst Situation

Author:Rob Bell

“While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's entire outlook.”

Thinking Past Beautiful Waiting Results Amount Tomorrow Bounds Poison Outlook Discontent Seasoning

Author:Isabelle Eberhardt

“People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.”

People World Whole Character Suffering Causes Amount Weakness Weak Immense Civilisation Weak Character

Book:A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

Source: A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

“It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.”

Lying Certain Silence Fields Amount

Author:Emmylou Harris

“If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.”

Ifs World Health Amount Exercise Eating Combat

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.”

“I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while we wait for our cars at the valet.”

Men Years Waiting Share Car Amount Female Valet Female Friends

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.”

Ends Teach Amount Opposites Dating Incredibles Spectrum Dating Someone

Author:Chris Pine

“Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.”

Done Seems Energy Heaven Waiting Economy Amount Increase Burning Urgency Decrease Work To Be Done

Author:Edith Stein

“all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.”

Ifs World Needs Should Persons Certain Creative Amount Creating Criticism Criticize Shut Up Creating Something Creative Writers

Author:Gena Rowlands

“It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a noble thought, as a virtuous mind welcomes a pure sentiment by a involuntary glow of satisfaction. But while the principle of perception is inherent in the soul, it requires a certain amount of knowledge to draw out and direct it.”

“Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be increased by any amount of ingenuity expended in their statistical examination: that the statistician's task, in fact, is limited to the extraction of the whole of the available information on any particular issue.”

Whole Facts Body Issues Modern Information Particular Amount Limits Tasks Notion Available Familiar Data Statistics Finite Examination Ingenuity Statistician Extraction

Author:Ronald Fisher

“Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.”

Littles Sometimes Light Running Today Earth Environment Amount Survival Errors Species Billions Nine Fifty Cents Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“It is no accident that stock exchange floors - in addition to bedroom floors - bring out the noisy blood, the flushed cheek, and the passionate cries of men. Most men are making love when they make 'magical' amounts of money.”

Men Blood Cry Amount Passionate Accidents Cheeks Bedroom Making Love Noisy Stock Exchange

Book:Women, money & power

Source: Women, money & power

“The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.”

Action Given Amount Performances Agents

Book:Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

“No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.”

Humanity Given Sin Amount Trade Charity Israel Abandonment Hateful

Author:Hermann Adler

“being chic not only takes a great deal of money but an enormous amount of time. It practically precludes everything else, even being on charity committees. Half of one's time goes getting chic, the other half being seen that way.”

Way Deals Half Fashion Style Amount Charity Enormous Committees Other Half Chic

Author:Elizabeth Hawes

“Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.”

“What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.”

Source: Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village

“The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.”

Young Girl Women Amount Income Wearing Pink

Author:Sandra Lerner

“Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.”

Hands Creativity Creation Amount Artistic Going Away Hand In Hand Artistic Creation

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.”

Ifs Men World Numbers This World Amount Increase Encounters Effectiveness Annoyance

Author:Grace Coolidge

“Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.”

Years Shows Might Actors Five Four Television Serious Months Amount Six Six Months Television Shows Anthology

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.”

Differences Pay Amount Cost Customers Items

Author:Brian Tracy

“Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.”

Thinking Years Wells Looks Ends Matter Done Today Action Lying Certain Week Amount Each Day Accumulation Good Years

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories are constantly changing according to budget, actors, and commercial needs. Films are a collaborative process and are also inherently narrative and structured, so you are always working within very tight parameters. Short fiction unleashes a more intimate voice and a passion for language. I believe short narratives can have the same amount of danger and drama as any action film.”

“I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.”

Has Beens Media Amount Citizens Deserve Fairs Ugly Trials American Citizens Misinformation Malicious Fair Trial

Author:Michael Jackson

“I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.”

Children Father Sin Amount Blame Sins Of The Father Kennedy Family

Author:Bernard Goldberg

“Back in 1998, he [Tom Hanks] gave the maximum amount of money that he could to Bill Clinton's defense fund. This is a man who was against gay marriage, as was Hillary Clinton.”

Men Amount Gay Bills Clinton Defense Fund Toms Maximum Gay Marriage Against Gay Marriage

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming.”

Ends Problem Economy Amount Fundamentals Consumers Not Sure Sheer Carbon Trading Consuming Greener

Author:Michael Pollan

“The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and things like that from eating large meals. The problem is it makes it harder for people to control the amount they're eating.”

People Ideas Problem Principles Issues Amount Eating Harder Complicated Meals Good Ideas Grazing Insulin

Author:Michael Pollan

“Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.”

Challenges Amount Eating Environmental Enormous Meat Gas Beef Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Environmental Challenges

Author:Michael Pollan

“There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.”

People Thinking Way Needs Giving Wells Amount Giving Up Raises Prepared Meat Diets Vegetarian Vegan Diminish Need A Change Vegan Diet

Author:Michael Pollan

“I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.”

Ifs Knows I Can Body Moving Energy Hours Four Meditation Cold Amount Yoga Twenties Hot Hot Yoga

Author:Jason Mraz

“Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.”

Believe Country Passion I Believe Television Amount Devil Raises Election Disabled Protestants Good God Evangelists Theocracy Mentally Disabled

Author:Gore Vidal

“We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural.”

Way Needs Feels Humans Looks Mean Doe Certain Sex Natural Amount Caring Superficial Exploits Sexiness

Author:Kathy Sierra

“There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.”

Art Artist Quality Talent Amount Direct Mysterious

Author:Anne Truitt

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