The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.
It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.
She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.
To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.
We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment.
There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking. [. . . ] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.
People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.
I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.