Famous quotes containing the words large and/or amounts:
“The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.”
—Truman Capote (1924–1984)