When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
Sydney J. Harris

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Peter Ustinov

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Mason Cooley

It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.
Bill Forsyth

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.
David Baltimore

I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value.
Todd Barry

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
Bob Riley

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
Barbara Sher

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
B. F. Skinner

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Mortimer Adler

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
Jackson Pollock

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.
Hideki Tojo

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
Maya Lin

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
Antonio Porchia

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.
Ken Burns

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castenada

The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.
Sandra Day O'Connor

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
Sandra Day O'Connor