Top 40 Fourths Quotes
#1. Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.
James E. Faust
#2. Three-fourths of the universe is hydrogen, and oxygen is incredibly abundant, too. So H2O is something you can find nearly everywhere.
Seth Shostak
#3. Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
Gilbert Parker
#4. Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.
Mahatma Gandhi
#5. Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
Abraham Lincoln
#6. Funny," [Antryg] said, "if you're a mage, they always ask you to read the future, as if knowing it will help. I think three-fourths of all prayers prayed are for two and two not to equal four.
Barbara Hambly
#7. Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
Matthew Arnold
#8. A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.
Eddie Van Halen
#9. Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
Dale Carnegie
#10. Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#11. More than three fourths of all Americans are vitamin D-deficient.
John Cannell
#12. The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild land can provide work for those who need it as their source of income without being ruined for those who need it as their source of sanity.
Timothy Egan
#13. We have the potential for making massive change ... and the bottom line is that we can't be the generation responsible for wiping out three-fourths of life forms on the Earth.
Anthony D. Barnosky
#14. If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.
Confucius
#17. We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#18. You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
David Garrick
#19. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
#20. In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
Mark Twain
#21. Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.
James Bryce
#22. Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
Gary Snyder
#23. To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
Oscar Wilde
#24. To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.
Wallace Stevens
#25. The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession
Henry Adams
#26. I recalled the late Mr. Pincutt's advice - facts are three-fourths of the law. At
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
Robert A. Heinlein
#29. My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
Sam Abell
#30. Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
William Allen White
#31. I felt very grown up when I was wearing makeup, thank you very much.
Nick Rhodes
#32. A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
Jack Falahee
#33. Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.
Jimmy Johnson
#34. I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.
Hilary Duff
#35. If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.
Mikhail Tal
#36. The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.
Denis Waitley
#38. I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.
Pedro Almodovar
#39. Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.
Pearl S. Buck
#40. The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.
Herbert M. Shelton
