In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.
The Canadian economy relies on foreign trade. Nearly three-quarters of Canada's exports go south.
Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.
God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.
One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.
To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
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.
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?
You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes. "Not claustrophobic people, Tris.
I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here.
Contrary to the image of a neurotic man created in some quarters, I feel very much at peace with myself.
I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster.
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.
There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.
The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father.
You have to get your motivation from within, and it doesn't matter if you lose in the quarters, the semis, or the final. You must want to have another chance of winning the trophy.
...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
You're going to get a lot of advice coming from many different quarters to do things that don't feel right to you, that don't reflect who you are and what your values are. So you have to be grounded in who you are and what you believe.
The Davis Cup should be home and away from the semi-finals as a minimum, I would say even the quarters.
We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe.
Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment.
Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.
I want to be able to press a person all four quarters of a game until he just can't take it anymore.
Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
As a university student and activist, I was attacked from all quarters from the far right to the far left.
We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.
In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water can have it.
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.
Speaking of Quarterback nicknames, you hear they're calling Jay Cutler 50 cent? Because you only get two quarters out of him.
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one 's own heart.)
Tonight was a disappointing effort. I thought we competed the last three quarters but in the first quarter we did not compete, we participated, and that's not acceptable.
If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land.
The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.
In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.
Two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia.
In several quarters in the 2000s, if you added up all the private savings of everyone in the United States, it was less than nothing. You can't sustain that as a driver of growth.
My wallet is full of change. I'm like, Why is this bag so heavy? Oh, yeah. It's the $100 in quarters!
Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.
Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view
I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again.
[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.
I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.
We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe
There is one stark fact facing us: three quarters of all crime that results in a caution or sentence happens because of reoffending. We must be fearless in dealing with this.
I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of Gaunt's 'This sceptred isle' speech and not feel proud to be British.
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.
I have been receiving calls from all quarters since the release of 'Madras.' I need to thank audiences for believing in me and making this film successful.
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