Quarters Quotes - Page 13

• If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Storm, May

  Thomas Jordan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, J P. Pryor (1868). “The campaigns of lieut.-gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's cavalry, by T. Jordan and J.P. Pryor”, p.411

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• In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Overcoming

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• A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Time, Real, War

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• If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.

  Warren Buffett

  Coca Cola, Calories, Ifs

  "Alex Trebek has a Much Filthier Diet than Warren Buffett". www.tvovermind.com. April 24, 2017.

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• I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in California was disastrous.

  Robert Hass

  Country, Children, School

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

  George H. W. Bush

  Past, Liberty, Libertarian

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• A motel is where you give up good dollars for bad quarters.

  Henny Youngman

  Giving Up, Dollars, Motels

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• I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.

  Dayna Devon

  Jobs, Years, People

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• Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Dwelling, Miles, Firearms

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel a quarter Indian.

  Martina Hingis

  Feels, Indian

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• Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.

  Katy Butler

  Home, People, Three

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We're not paying a real price for carbon. If we were, we wouldn't be using as much. We need to have the right perspective. It's not just about next quarter's financial return. It's about where we want to be in ten years.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Real, Years, Perspective

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

  Peter Blair Henry

  Country, Class, People

  Peter Blair Henry, Peter Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.6, Basic Books

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• Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Prison, Should

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• Do you have a quarter? My mom told me to call her when I meet the women of my dreams.

  Jerry Lawler

  Mom, Dream, My Mom

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• You're going to get a lot of advice coming from many different quarters to do things that don't feel right to you, that don't reflect who you are and what your values are. So you have to be grounded in who you are and what you believe.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Advice, Different

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

  Roelof Botha

  Wall, Rushing, Long

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• I want to see everyone contribute to the overall costs of the system, and with their entire earnings. I'm convinced that an objective discussion will reveal that the differences between the parties, which have been greatly exaggerated in some quarters, aren't that significant after all.

  Angela Merkel

  Party, Differences, Cost

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• The new buzz word in Silicon Valley is "integration". Work-life "balance" is very 2.0. All these women share ways in which they integrate their family life and work. Facebook's head of Global Solutions, Carolyn Everson, for example, takes her children along on her business trips once a quarter. They meet her clients, visit new places and get a better understanding of what mom does when she isn't at home with them.

  Willow Bay

  Mom, Children, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.

  Arianna Huffington

  Giving, Campaigns, Way

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.231, Crown

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• King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.

  Tony Blair

  Kings, Men, Vision

  "Saudi king dies" by James Sturcke, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2005.

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• War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Fog, Giving

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.101, Princeton University Press

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• Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Waiting, Three

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.286, Courier Corporation

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• One time I was on the road with clients with an investment bank, and they thought it would be fun to go to a strip club. It was the most barren thing I've ever seen - this poor woman had nothing on and they were throwing quarters at her.

  Melanne Verveer

  Fun, Would Be, Clubs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.

  John Adams

  Atheist, Believe, Fate

  Letter to F. A. Van der Kemp, February 16, 1808.

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