Quarters Quotes - Page 3

• En la guerra, tres cuartas partes dependen del carácter y las relaciones personales; el equilibrio de la mano de obra y los materiales sólo cuenta para la cuarta parte restante.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Guerra, carácter, equilibrio

  Correspondance de Napolèon Ier" vol. 17 (1865) nº 14276 "Observations sur les affaires d'Espagne, Saint- Cloud, 27 août 1808".

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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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• Tres cuartas partes de mi familia son irlandeses. Por supuesto, el "Kazee" no lo es.

  Steve Kazee

  Three, My Family, Courses

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's 'Once'". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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• When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.

  Bobby Flay

  Cutting, Three, Restaurants

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• 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.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Expectations, Sides, Exit

  "Interview: Dell's Rollins lays out a road map, from services to AMD". Interview with Tom Sullivan, www.infoworld.com. November 12, 2004.

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• Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Tired, Thinking, America

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.103, Ballantine Books

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• Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

  Marqués de Sade

  Law, Three, Conflict

  "Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings". Book by Marquis de Sade, December 1, 2007.

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• Entrenaba menos de tres cuartos de hora, quizá cinco días a la semana, no tenía tiempo para más. Pero se trataba de calidad, no de cantidad, así que no perdía el tiempo haciendo footing, nunca.

  Roger Bannister

  Quality Not Quantity, Jogging, Three

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• I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

  Josh Holloway

  Mother, Brother, Book

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• That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

  Alan Vega

  Halfway There, Long, Promise

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• En el primer cuarto del siglo XIX, la prueba experimental de la interdependencia de la composición y las propiedades de los compuestos químicos dio lugar a la teoría de que están mutuamente relacionadas, de modo que la composición similar rige las propiedades similares, y a la inversa.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Primicias, Pruebas, Productos químicos

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• Si dejas un momento libre el más mínimo rincón de tu cabeza, las opiniones de los demás llegarán de todas partes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Opinion, Moments

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• Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

  Robert Ballard

  Golf, Moon, Mountain Ranges

  "The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.

  William Cavendish, I Duque de Newcastle

  Lines, Should

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• At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

  Gerard Arpey

  Travel, Three, Century

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• Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

  John Major

  Clever, Stupid, Silly

  1991 Quoted in the Observer, 7 Jul.

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• I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Careers, Hell, Stains

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• Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

  Mike Ferguson

  Spiritual, Powerful, Leader

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• Sabes que una de las causas de la desesperación moderna es el hecho de que se nos ha propuesto, desde diversos sectores, una perfección imposible.

  Morris West

  Wisdom, Art, Perfection

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• 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.

  Peter MacKay

  Country, Stress, Support

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• Sólo en Arkansas, aproximadamente tres cuartos de millón de personas corren el riesgo de pasar hambre, y uno de cada cuatro niños no come lo suficiente, por lo que mi objetivo es concienciar sobre este trágico problema.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Niños, Temas, Personas

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• 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.

  George Saintsbury

  Romance, Mind, Division

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.13, tredition

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• Tuve un primer trimestre horrible, pero me recuperé. A todos los solteros, no se trata de cómo empiezas la cita, sino de cómo la terminas, señor. Mucha gente puede, ya sabes, empezar la cita con flores y caramelos, pero si no acabas la cita... ¿sabes lo que quiero decir?

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Baloncesto, Flor, Media

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• Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Europe, Lasts, Asia

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• It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

  Alice Hamilton

  Believe, Italian, Europe

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.93, Read Books Ltd

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