Nine Quotes
1356 quotes by 1086 authors
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
— George Washington Carver
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and…
— Adam Clayton
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I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
— Kurt Cobain
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
— Martin Amis
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If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.
— George Carlin
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We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do…
— John F. Kennedy
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Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
— Wernher von Braun
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Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.
— Chuck Dressen
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Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to make me that…
— Bob Gibson
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.
— Dale Dauten
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Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a…
— Peter Kreeft
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It's really hard to find things that are worth leaving them for. [Balancing work and motherhood is] really hard. One night in Nashville, my son…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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I think it's more than whether or not you win or lose. It's having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down…
— Phil Mickelson
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In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
— Peter Lynch
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Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support…
— Barack Obama
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Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go…
— Ronald Reagan
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They wanna bury me im worried. Im loosin my mind look down the barrel of my nine and my visions blurry. Fallen to pieces am…
— Tupac Shakur
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Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!
— Sam Snead
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