#quart

Somewhere along the line, between the idealisms of youth and the realities of adulthood, we become pacified by our jobs; we tolerate how we hurt the world so that we can sustain our lives. At some point, blurred in the past, we traded the greater good for ourselves. ↗

— Richard Beckham II

#quarter-life-crisis #life

Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed. ↗

— Stephen King

#lucky-quarter #humor

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#sea-swept #men

It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it. ↗

— Francis William Aston

#atomic #been #chemical #conclusions #could

I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that. ↗

— Jason Babin

#i #imagine #like #looking #out

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. ↗

— Milton Berle

#company #dollars #million #quarter #retiring

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. ↗

— Terry Brennan

#happen #his #loses #quarterback #thing

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon. ↗

— James Oliver

#form #honesty #improved #industry #kindness

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#been #experience #final #finals #i

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#different #different things #each #i #instruments