#amount

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. ↗

— William Hurt

#amount #being #believe #done #energy

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

#amount #astonishing #education #facts #form

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step. ↗

— Giovanni Agnelli

#certain #economy #europe #first #first of all

There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#china #energy #increasingly #japan #tremendous

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not. ↗

— Marc Almond

#business #certain #done #etiquette #go

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. ↗

— Tori Amos

#amount #anything #because #change #complain

You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people. ↗

— Prince Andrew

#behaviors #contact #encounter #estates #how

There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation. ↗

— Rob Woodall

#being #benefits #bills #congress #discussed

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#certain #need #nerve #writer #you

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on. ↗

— Andrew J. Bacevich

#being #going #knowing #much #our