Amount
To go up; to ascend.
To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
To signify; to amount to.
The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.
The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
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Amount Quotations
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Ronald Reagan
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire
So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
Barack Obama
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller
Amount Translations
amount in Afrikaans is aantal, bedrag
amount in Dutch is tal, aantal, getal
amount in Finnish is summa
amount in French is nombre, somme, montant
amount in German is Betrag, Betrag, gelesene/Betrag, Summe
amount in Italian is importo
amount in Portuguese is uma quantidade
amount in Swedish is antal, summa, belopp
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