Quotes About Quarter

He embraced compromise as a necessary element of public life, engaged his political foes in the passage of important legislation, and was willing to break with the base of his own party in order to do what he thought was right, whatever the price. Quaint, yes: But it happened, in America, only a quarter of a century ago.

the current division of the shtetl into its two sections, the Jewish Quarter and the Human Three-Quarters. All so-called sacred activities—religious studies, kosher butchering, bargaining, etc.—were contained within the Jewish Quarter. Those activities concerned with the humdrum of daily existence—secular studies, communal justice, buying and selling, etc.—took place in the Human Three-Quarters. Straddling the two was the Upright Synagogue.

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

In the final quarter of our century that life-and-death engagement with leadership has given way to the cult of personality, to a "gee whiz" approach to celebrities.

As he spoke, the sound of a church clock, muffled by the snow, came borne upon the wind; it chimed the first quarter. 'Thank God!' said Wimsey. 'Where there is a church, there is civilisation.

One of the most watched - and least meaningful - financial metrics each quarter is the number of 'earnings surprises,' or instances in which companies' profits beat analysts' expectations.

Music was coming from a balcony at Frenchmen and Chartres, someone playing a saxophone. And then a voice. "This is Radio Marigny reporting from Atlantis. The bitch Katrina blew through Monday and now we're sunk. Also fucked. But we're dry in the Marigny and the Quarter! Everywhere else is underwater. The water's still rising, folks—where it stops, nobody knows.

Quarter were a regular retail mafia; the owner and Dahveed probably took each other's UPS deliveries. But it was a good place to regroup. She pretended

Basilicas should be constructed on a site adjoining the forum and in the warmest possible quarter, so that in winter business men may gather in them without being troubled by the weather.

You fool! You're 30 cents away from having a quarter!

We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.

A Frith may be made at any time; but the first Monday of the quarter — a' chiad Di-luain de'n Raithe — is considered the most auspicious.

Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.

Another drunk goes up to a parking meter, puts in a quarter, the dial goes to 60. The drunk says, "Huh. I lost 100 pounds!"

GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.

When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.

Here we are, a quarter of a century later," declared Clark, "with the same Allies as before, fighting the same mad dogs that were let loose in 1918." Clark

He was parsimonious in the extreme. Once, when we were together at an airport, I asked him for a dime to make a phone call. He started to walk some distance to get change for a quarter. "Warren," I exclaimed, "the quarter will do," and he sheepishly handed it over.

My face grew hot. "We were discussing the investigation," I told him quickly. "He was here a quarter of an hour at the most." Father smiled at me sadly. "My dear girl, if you din't know what mischief can be gotten up to in a quarter of an hour you are no child of mine.

Prince Albert might have been dead for a quarter of a century, but the industry of death showed no sign of slowing.

I'll tell you who has a lot of money, and that's Manny. I mean, that kid is RICH. A few weeks ago Mom and Dad told Manny they'd give him a quarter for every time he uses the potty without being asked. So now he carries around a gallon of water with him at all times.

We are out-of-the-gates strong in fiscal 2015. We grew revenue 8% in the first quarter and exceeded our QuickBooks Online subscriber and our company financial targets.

Good cash-flow managers review their cash position daily, looking at cash sources and needs for the next week, month, and quarter.

What time is it? Time? Time. Oh, She said. A quarter to four. Mr. Markham, something terrible has happened. She didn't have to tell me that. Something perfectly dreadful had happened, by God. Someone had called me in the middle of the bloody night.