#quarters

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#entirely #export #fed #improvement #manufactures

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. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#contact #never #off #only #quarters

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

— Phil Condit

#heck #lot #make #none #quarters

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. ↗

— George Stigler

#before #central #chicago #close #department

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. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#been #change #desire #equally #forward

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 #could #defect #half #many

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

— Ramakrishna

#earth #find #four #here #nothing

To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#act #alarm #am #captain #department

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#like #order #other #ourselves #people

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

— Edward Teach

#damnation #give #i #my soul #quarters