Quarters Quotes

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.

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

Love is three quarters curiosity.

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

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

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.

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

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

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.

But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

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.

They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.

Three quarters of the East Coast's refinery capability is located in the Philadelphia region.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.

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.