Quarters Quotes

• A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

  Mary Landrieu

  The End Of The Day, Pennies, Ends

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• Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Luck, Caprice, Form

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.475, Everyman's Library

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• Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Funny, Music, Humor

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• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  Eamon de Valera

  Military, Men, Needs

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• Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one 's own heart.)

  Ramakrishna

  Travel, Earth, Four

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna".

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• Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

  Marcel Proust

  Intelligent, Gambling, Doctors

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• Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

  Storm Jameson

  Success, Men, Thinking

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• It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Team, Important

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• I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

  Richard Thompson

  Song, Hands, Three

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• You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

  Peyton Manning

  Mean, Thinking, Nfl

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• I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Stupid, Moving, Mountain

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.88, Cambridge University Press

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• I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.

  Sarah Silverman

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

  Henry Kravis

  America, Today, Opinion

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• But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Peace, Home, Doe

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.602, Library of America

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• You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

  James Sinegal

  Long, Worry, Next

  "Online Extra: At Costco, "Good Jobs and Good Wages"". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

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• There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, New Orleans, Cities

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• I dont think theres a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

  Glenn Danzig

  Thinking, French Quarter, Hollywood

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• It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

  Floyd Abrams

  Years, Law, Lasts

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.

  Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

  Voice, Sick, Four

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• I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Player, Long, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter

  Mary Landrieu

  The End Of The Day, President, Cost

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• The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

  George Stigler

  Issues, Intellectual, Mind

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• One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

  Andrew Tobias

  Book, People, Done

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• Three-quarters of the world’s population doesn’t have enough to eat!

  Helen Reddy

  Population, Three, World

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• On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character

  Edward Thorndike

  Character, Lasts, Study

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.25, Routledge

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