134 Quarter Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Will Men Argument Lost Humane Plead Tyrants Give Quarter Nor Where Certainly Reason Reasonable Waste

Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter. Annalee Newitz

Hope Perspective Fall Systems Kind Rise Rather Economic Take Prosper Empires Like Quarter Than Just Centuries Next Need

I really do think we're going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we're starting to see the effects at the editorial level, and it's all bad. This increased pressure for profits every quarter, smaller news hole, less coverage of important stuff - the extent that it's become one giant infotainment industry. Molly Ivins

News Pressure Important Become Ownership Every Think Increased Giant Bad See Through Smaller Stuff Concentration Period Industry Editorial Quarter Coverage Effects Going Hole Really Less Media Level Profits Extent Starting

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 Wisdom Alone Our Would Investing Also Concern Quarter His Cautious Anticipate Just Capital Us Businessman

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony. Guy Laliberte

Symphony Quarter Grand Note Each

If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June - a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special: the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. Martin Rees

Home You Change Perspective Made First Single Year Our Earth Say Would Would-Be Cosmic Lifetime Quarter Very June Represent December Tiny January Century Themselves Planet Special Even Second Humans Fraction

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community. Nicole Ari Parker

You White Community New French Quarter Mixing New Orleans African-American Acknowledge Races Hard Whole Play Orleans Set Creole

For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride. Rabbit Maranville

Work Time Good Broken Pride Pay Disposition Everything Has-Been Pretty Pretty Good Both Risky Joints Ankles Between Most Got Quarter Been Legs Century Hard Baseball Playing Fractured

If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands. Winona LaDuke

Agriculture Organic Our Air Destroying About Could Glaciers Industrialized Quarter Oceans Forests Moved Moving Lands Carbon

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be. Abbey Lincoln

Life Saying You Women People Men Men And Women Input Some Seemed Crowd Outlook Had Knew Come How Still Quarter Were Current Where Social Spare Who Things Streets

Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus. Ada Lovelace

I'm a real Swede! In fact, I'm a quarter Finnish. Alicia Vikander

Fact Finnish Real Quarter In Fact

Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom. Allan Gurganus

Great Me Broken Envy Three Beauty Living Sets Harp Mine Strings Claim Though Stealing Study Opened New Beautifully Bedroom Quarter Were Covered Refinement German Goddesses Manhattan Coat Painted Whole Things Imagine Gather

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them. Andrew Tobias

Time Book People Back Out Having More Advantages Quarter Quarter Century Been Than Report Done Them Century

I read 'On The Road' in college. I was 18 or 19, and I had a particular quarter where I was taking biology, calculus, and physics. Those were my three classes. It wasn't a well-rounded schedule at all. It was hard, hard work, all the time - hours and hours and hours of homework. Ben Gibbard

Work Hard Work Time Physics College Three Homework Biology Those Classes Schedule Had Road Taking Particular Hours Calculus Hours And Hours Read Well-Rounded Quarter Were Where Hard

I've been trying to watch my weight a bit, but when I come to Las Vegas, all bets are off. I get enough healthy food in L.A. where the food is the size of a quarter and costs $40 - when I'm in Vegas, I want a steak! Billy Gardell

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

Horses Had Quarter Years Last

We read of the courageous march south to battle the Confederate Army by the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Unlike their white counterparts, they understood from the beginning that they would be offered no quarter if captured alive. Burgess Owens

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales. Calvin Klein

Experience Year Run Does Quarter Dollars Sales Billion Billion Dollars Company

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like. Carl Icahn

Me Like Makes Quarter Dollars Anyone Billion Billion Dollars

When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't understand or are not committed are not helpful. Carol Bartz

Trouble Strikes Those Members Bad Takeover Economy Understand Does Always Quarter Committed Which Board Who Helpful Activists

I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I was interested in, and they couldn't accommodate all of us. I wasn't allowed to take voice or dance, only theater and acting. So I saved my money and, at 19, moved to New York. Casey Nicholaw

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