Nine Quotes
1356 Nine quotes by 1086 unique authors
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The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound…
— Laozi
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My doctor said I had OCD. I couldn't believe it. I had to call him nine times to make sure.
— Judy Gold
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Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.
— Brian Robertson
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Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we do…
— John Beddington
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When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion. You…
— Tony Blair
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Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.
— Harold Geneen
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For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the…
— Pope John Paul II
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It's not my goal, definitely. I mean, I don't think it's something I can really achieve. Definitely she's a great champion - she has nine…
— Petra Kvitova
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To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.
— Bill Bryson
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I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the…
— Eric Pianka
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A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a…
— Michael Faraday
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a…
— Anna Brownell Jameson
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Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.
— Paulo Coelho
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The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and…
— Mark Twain
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
— Frank Moore Colby
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the…
— Erma Bombeck
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If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want…
— William Whiting Borden
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The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
— Chester Barnard
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if…
— Jason Bateman
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Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.
— Albert Einstein
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Arsenal are quick to credit Bergkamp with laying on 75% of their nine goals
— Tony Gubba
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I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.
— Allison Mack
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