Famous quotes containing the words base and/or amount:
“One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.”
—Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)
“Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)