Quarter Quotes

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.

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.

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

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.

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

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.

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second.

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

This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

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

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

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

It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

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

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.