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.