Famous quotes containing the words amount and/or based:
“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“In tennis, at the end of the day youre a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand.... I dont need that anymore. I dont need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.”
—Chris Evert (b. 1954)
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