Quarters Quotes - Page 18

• Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Team, Hard Work

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• Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Giving, Dollars, Clean

  Scott Westerfeld (2007). “The Last Days”, p.62, Penguin

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• I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper. From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Men, Two

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.727, VM eBooks

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• When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.

  Stephen Elop

  Boston, White, Potatoes

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• In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Two, Rivers

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• The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world's most unruly, passionate and
  energetic people safe, prosperous and free.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Safe, Passionate

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• We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Moving, People, Rabbits

  "Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1958.

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• We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

  Chris Christie

  Cost Of Living, People, Political

  "Christie Says He’ll Reject Bill to Lift N.J. Minimum Wage" by Terrence Dopp, www.bloomberg.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I tell everybody that I'm a quatre-sexual: I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.

  Merv Griffin

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

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• The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

  C. S. Lewis

  Past, Tea, Four

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years

  Tony Elumelu

  Ambition, Years, Needs

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• 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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• It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Taken, Character, Self

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• The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!

  Charles Dickens

  Blow, Clouds, Wind

  CHARLES DICKENS (1873). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.153

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• The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.

  Italo Calvino

  Cities, Lost, Understood

  "Le citta invisibili (Invisible Cities)". Book by Italo Calvino, 1974.

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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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• My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.

  Margaret Cho

  Struggle, People, Century

  "Outing (And Why Gay Celebrities Need to Leave the Closet)" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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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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• When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

  Buddy Guy

  Chicago, Dimes, Found

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• Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, School, America

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.

  Euripides

  Sex, Night, Thinking

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.

  Thomas Beecham

  Years, Age, Population

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• To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is the feeling of the people of the New York ghetto in the present instance that Pres. William McKinley is spoken of in that quarter as "the loving brother of all of us," as one who "died a martyr to the freedom of Jew and Gentile.

  Abraham Cahan

  Brother, New York, Prayer

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• I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

  John Buchan

  Jobs, Work, Would Be

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• I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

  Helen Hunt

  Taken, Stories, Whispering

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