#quarters

Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat! ↗

— Helen Reddy

#enough #population #three-quarters #world

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

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#before #brought #campaign #carter #complicated

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

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#i #instrument #probably #songs #three-quarters

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#also #bread #corn #dispensable #how

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#acres #corn #count #each #how

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. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#american #around #built #business #century

Love is three quarters curiosity. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#love #love is #quarters #three