#quarter

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#blow #budget #difference #game #go

In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#approximately #arkansas #awareness #bring #children

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

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

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#country #death #follow #food #forced

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

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them. ↗

— Carolus Linnaeus

#distinguish #first #glance #globe #loss

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter. ↗

— William H. Macy

#directors #else #get #harder #paid

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

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters. ↗

— Peyton Manning

#comebacks #first #fourth #guy #hear