Not Amounting To Much Quotes

#1. By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

Alexander Hamilton

#2. Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

Anne Lamott

#3. Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a bonus amounting to six months' salary;

Aldous Huxley

#5. The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

Martin H. Fischer

#6. All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

Thomas Boswell

#7. It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and
actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#8. So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

Alan Lightman

#9. An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.

Bayard Taylor

#11. Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to home ground.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility; we cease to be able to do the things we've long been grudging about doing.

Seneca.

#13. People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

Eve Ensler

#14. Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.

Azim Premji

#15. There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.

Margaret Halsey

#16. My breath caught in wonder and surprise and I remembered that during the darkest of hours, God is.

Lisa Samson

#17. Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

Leslie Charteris

#18. When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.

Adrian McKinty

#19. Lust. Damn rotten lust that I wasn't acquainted with and would never, ever tolerate. It was a sick, sick emotion.

Pepper Winters

#20. Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable.

Joyce Carol Oates

#21. Love whom you will but marry your own kind was a dictum amounting to instinct within her.

Harper Lee

#22. The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

Theodor Adorno

#23. I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. And they just let you enter after their effort?"
"What should they have done, Mr MacRieve?"
"I know exactly what I would have done."
"I know exactly how I would have retaliated.

Kresley Cole

#25. The old man moaned and maundered, murmured, muttered, mumbled odds of this and ends of that, bits and pieces, shreds and edges, full of ifs and whens and theres and thens, amounting in the end and all to six times less than nothing.

James Thurber

#26. Every day one reads meretricious babble about 'globalization' and the abolition of frontiers, most of it amounting to little more than celebration of the worldwide availability of Wheel of Fortune.

Christopher Hitchens

#27. You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind.

Frederick Lenz

#28. I had no expectation. I had no expectation of goin' anywhere in my life. I had no expectation of ever amounting to anythin'. I didn't expect you. I didn't expect us." "Ayuh?

Lex Chase