It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week if there is anything to be got by it.

It will be readily admitted that a degree conferred by an university ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate and in circulating it can increase in quantity and hopefully in value.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

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

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

Gold and silver like other commodities have an intrinsic value which is not arbitrary but is dependent on their scarcity the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

It is our best work that God wants not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions because quantity isn't the same as quality.

Beauty is composed of an eternal invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine and a relative element which might be either by turns or all at once period fashion moral passion.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is at once best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.