Quarters Quotes

• And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

  Black Elk

  Eye, Wind, Giving

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

  Oliver North

  Kids, Marine, Dollars

  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

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• But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Clouds, New Horizons, Watches

  "The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell".

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• The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

  Charles Bass

  Military, Past, Technology

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• Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Corn, Bread, Week

  Francis Henry Cripps-Day, Walter de Henley, Jacques Bellot, Robert Grosseteste (1931). “The manor farm”

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• A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Loss, Different, Firsts

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• A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Moving

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2011

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• Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Facts, Common

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• Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Reality, Support, Half

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• If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Land, Numbers, Sowing

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• They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.

  William Henry Ashley

  Spring, Party, Winter

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• We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Two, Achievement, Effort

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• I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Horse, Years, Lasts

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• With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Success, Men, Tyrants

  William Lloyd Garrison, Walter McIntosh Merrill, Louis Ruchames (1971). “The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

  C. L. R. James

  Europe, Lasts, Century

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• Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Being Happy, Wisdom

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.17, Courier Dover Publications

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• There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Country, Cost, Cigar

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

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• I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

  Dan Aykroyd

  New York, Years, Squares

  "Dan Aykroyd for 'Christmas with the Kranks'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

  Paul Weyrich

  Thirds, Sean

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• I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world

  Kathleen Turner

  Brother, Knowing, Feelings

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• The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

  Milton Berle

  Teacher, Retirement, Dollars

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• I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

  Chi McBride

  Men, Years, People

  "Chi McBride of 'Boston Public'". Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2001.

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• Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

  William H. Macy

  Directors, Harder, Paid

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• I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

  Black Elk

  Horse, Animal, Numbers

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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