Nine Quotes
1356 Nine quotes by 1086 unique authors
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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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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
— Francis Marion Crawford
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
— Pat Summitt
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When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income…
— Kirk Kerkorian
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Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
— Claudine Guerin de Tencin
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Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
— Tim Ferriss
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If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than…
— William Feather
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All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been…
— H. L. Mencken
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Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.
— Harold S. Kushner
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I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
— Nadine Gordimer
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young…
— Doris Lessing
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