Quarters Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• [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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• I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.

  Sarah Silverman

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Blackbeard

  Giving, Pirate, Soul

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

  Harry Anderson

  Hollywood, Rats

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

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• It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.

  Francis William Aston

  Long, Needs, Weight

  Nobel Lecture, 1922.

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• The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

  James Monroe

  Important, Population, Unions

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

  Steven Wright

  Thinking, Comedy, Express Yourself

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

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• Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

  Aldous Huxley

  Literature, Three, Beastly

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

  John Ciardi

  Funny, Humor, Dollars

  John Ciardi (1972). “Manner of Speaking”

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• I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

  Tom Cruise

  Pride, Three, Nine

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 4, 2003.

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• A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

  William Falconer

  Running, Sea, Long

  William Falconer (1784). “An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship”, p.201

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• Two quarters doesn't make a trend, but it's a heck of a lot better than none.

  Philip M. Condit

  Two, Trends

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• I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Love, Death, Country

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• We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

  Guy Laliberte

  Symphony, Notes, Cirque Du Soleil

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• We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge

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• Im very disappointed that we missed our (earnings per share) growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a number of issues that we now understand and are urgently addressing. I accept full responsibility for the shortfall.

  Carly Fiorina

  Responsibility, Numbers, Issues

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• False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greatness, Political, Politics

  "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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