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Quotes About Quarter

In the 2010 holiday quarter, Apple reported $26.7 billion in revenue, up 70 percent from a year before. That means it's nearly as big as IBM, which did $29 billion in the same quarter.
~ Daniel Lyons
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
Every quarter of a century an angel has touched one candle. Every prayer that was offered over the candle was answered. The Christmas Candle has become legendary.
~ Max Lucado
element of concreteness here, let us suggest that to be "large" in present-day terms a company should have $50 million of assets or do $50 million of business.* Again to be "prominent" a company should rank among the first quarter or first third in size within its industry group.
~ Benjamin Graham
Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.
~ Sumner Redstone
London is a very big city, Manchester is calmer. I live near the training ground, so I do things around there in the countryside, but I really like Manchester's Northern Quarter, where they have nice coffee shops and live music places.
~ Juan Mata
J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it.
~ Spider-Man
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel.
~ Franklin P. Adams
People became conscious in dreams or waking reality, of the empire spreading out to every quarter of the world, and the most aware realized that for every subjugated realm there was a potential rebellion and the conquering wave that had surged outward might well reverse direction.
~ Storm Constantine
The messiness of the past quarter hour distressed him. He disliked overt violence.
~ Storm Constantine
If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.
~ Nathan Bedford Forrest
In the meantime, as tax receipts dwindled, the library's budget was cut by almost a quarter.
~ Susan Orlean
Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when wishing apparently no longer led to anything, and Leigh-Cheri eventually named it Prince Charming after that son-of-a-bitch who never comes though.
~ Tom Robbins
Well...he's back in an exam room. Should I get out a quarter? Everybody groaned. There was only one He out of the legions of male patients they treated, and coin bingo was typically how the staff decided who had to deal with him.
~ J.R. Ward
Star Wars Episode Three (And One Quarter): Revenge Of The Hicks
~ Ron White
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.
~ Charlotte Bronte
It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
~ Eamon de Valera
Henny was beautifully, wholeheartedly vile: she asked no quarter and gave none to the foul world, and when she told her children tales of the villainies they could understand, it was not to corrupt them, but because, for her, the world was really so.
~ Christina Stead
We shall have no more prophets or sages from the ancient quarter, which is why the devotions of today are only the echoing repetitions of yesterday, sometimes ratcheted up to screaming point so as to ward off the terrible emptiness.
~ Christopher Hitchens
We shall have no more prophets or sages from the ancient quarter, which is why the devotions of today are only the echoing repetitions of yesterday, sometimes ratcheted up to screaming point so as to ward off the terrible emptiness. While
~ Christopher Hitchens
They say New York is the city that never sleeps. But at a quarter to three on a moonlit Tuesday morning in May, the stretch of Central Park West that we were driving on was crapped out like a cat on a porch swing.
~ James Patterson
For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.
~ Mary Augusta Ward
Tampa's Latin quarter, Ybor City. Ybor had been the Cuban-Italian core when Tampa was "Cigar City USA.
~ Tim Dorsey
Down the street and around the block was a spot called Mean Bean. It advertised gourmet coffee drinks and pay-to-play WiFi, plus printing services at a quarter a page. A quarter a page? Jesus. For that kind of money I could buy my own printer and throw it away when I was finished.
~ Cherie Priest