Final Quarter Quotes

#1. Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.

Sinclair Lewis

#2. From my quarter-a-century experience as a fighter for democracy, there is never a final victory for democracy. It is always a struggle in every generation, and you have to take up the course of time and time again.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

#3. Every morning she'd crick herself down onto the flimsy rug by her bed and pray, but it was actually a promise: Today I won't yell, I won't cry, I won't clench up into a ball like I am waiting for a blow to level me. I will enjoy today. She might make it to lunch before she went sour.

Gillian Flynn

#4. The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

Gabriel Lippmann

#5. Domestication is a variation of the process of evolution, where the selector has been not just natural forces but human ones, eventually intent on bringing dogs inside their homes.

Alexandra Horowitz

#6. You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#7. There had been something in the details he had chosen to describe that made her cry herself asleep that night, for the kitten, for Anthony for herself, for the pain and bitterness and cruelty of all the world.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.

Richard M. Daley

#9. Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.

Angelique Kidjo

#10. I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end.

Sylvia Plath

#11. In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

Henry A. Kissinger

#12. I really loved her, I'd do anything to protect her. Even if that meant setting her free. My

Denise Grover Swank

#13. Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.

Kevin Spacey

#14. In calmness of mind is greatness

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#15. To stop war, teach peace, love, cooperation, and most of all - forgiveness.

Debasish Mridha

#16. I was born into the business. My mother was an entertainer. It was natural. But yes, in the next life, I might not do it.

Dina Lohan

#17. With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?

Richard Henry Stoddard