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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• I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.

  Sarah Silverman

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Real, Carpe Diem

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.56, Psychology Press

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

  Gioachino Rossini

  Funny, Music, Humor

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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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• 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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• 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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• [Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Clothes, Dresses

  Sports Illustrated, 1988.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Three, Defense

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• Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.

  Blackbeard

  Giving, Pirate, Soul

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• Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

  Pat Sajak

  Here I Am, Sometimes, Century

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• It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.

  Jenny Shipley

  Country, Ocean, Historical

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• I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Games, Boards

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• Viacoms results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

  Sumner Redstone

  Years, Track, Records

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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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