Top 39 Considerable Amount Quotes
#1. To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert in either field. This is clearly a prescription for career disaster in today's world of ultra-high specialization.
John L. Casti
#2. Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
Robert Frost
#3. Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their bosses leads them to be honest brokers of information for the members they work for.
John Harwood
#4. Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?
Jacqueline Carey
#5. There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.
John Sexton
#6. I do look a bit different because Dudley was a very piggish character and about three years ago I lost quite a considerable amount of weight. It means that I can lead a normal life without the baggage of people running after me and shouting things at me.
Harry Melling
#7. Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.
Meda Chesney-Lind
#8. The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#9. Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.
Frederick W. Taylor
#10. There is no doubt that I was blessed with a considerable amount of luck.
John Gurdon
#11. He had further narrowed his mind by a considerable amount of travel abroad, where he had again always made his way to the small hotels.
Patrick Hamilton
#12. The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one needs a considerable amount of preparatory training even to learn what the words mean.
Richard P. Feynman
#13. Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.
Arundhati Roy
#14. When a Mannerist artist breaks rules he does so on the basis of knowledge and not of ignorance. A considerable amount of North European architecture of the sixteenth century must be excluded for these reasons.
John Shearman
#15. considerable amount in consideration of his services in
Solomon Northup
#16. It would take a good amount of work, a considerable amount of patience, and an unfathomable amount of foot rubs, but in the end - at least for a while - they lived happily.
Daniel Younger
#17. ... and look down the glowing store front of a 24 hr bodega. I am not overly concerned about going in there with one bare foot and a considerable amount of dried blood on my clothing. This is the Bronx after all. But best to minimize the visual impact I might make.
Charlie Huston
#18. Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#19. I haven't really been auditioning. For me is about finding quality work versus finding work. I get a considerable amount of offers everyday.
Romany Malco
#20. He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible.
James Herriot
#21. I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time (say one hour or more a day, enough time to read more than a hundred additional books per year, which, after a couple of decades, starts mounting).
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#22. Now, all America sits in front of television sets and those television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV ... get the TV radiation.
L. Ron Hubbard
#23. The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.
Robert Smith Surtees
#24. The strong point of American research universities is the manner in which trustees, presidents and other senior executives retain a considerable amount of decision-making authority while at the same time maintaining a culture of open exchange and participatory debate.
Henry Rosovsky
#25. The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power.
Christian De Duve
#26. That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country
Masashi Kishimoto
#27. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
Ruth Rendell
#28. Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.
Daniel Kahneman
#29. Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. It's hard to tell these days what gender people are. You don't know if they're gay, if they're straight, or Bruce Jenner.
Chelsea Handler
#31. We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.
William Redington Hewlett
#32. I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.
John Travolta
#33. Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered" she went on with a sudden serious sweetness "but nobody could ever count my love for you".
O. Henry
#34. Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
Thomas Sowell
#35. Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#36. In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.
Joseph Addison
#37. As a child, rain meant endless amusement; in youth it meant romance; in middle-age, nothing mattered except the struggle of everyday living; but it was in the last leg of one's life when the rains assumed their sinister avatar. Thimma
Anand Neelakantan
#38. I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.
Joel Madden