Quarters Quotes

Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations over a void.

Here's a quarter, call someone who cares.

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water can have it.

We hadn't lost morale. But when you fight for four quarters, it's tough to always bounce back. The offense kept us in the game the last two weeks and to get out with a win feels really good.

It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

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

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

[Donna] Brazile was giving [Donald] Trump no quarter.

I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.

Morals are three-quarters manners.

Speaking of Quarterback nicknames, you hear they're calling Jay Cutler 50 cent? Because you only get two quarters out of him.

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

Well, I'm just about at the elevator up to the family quarters. But bear with me for just a minute more as I confirm who I am . It's obvious: I'm the president of the United States of America!

Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action.

Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

"Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

I've always been somebody that it takes me longer to learn things, but once I learn them... I'm like a quarterback that plays best in the fourth quarter.

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

When we see that the whole sum of our salvation, and every single part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must beware of deriving even the minutest portion of it from any other quarter.

Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.

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

I get joy, and actually, a high... by putting a quarter in a meter.

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment.

There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

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

Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.

In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.

This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe

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.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.

I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.

They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.