Ten Quotes
2796 Ten quotes by 1978 unique authors
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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and…
— Laozi
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.
— Tamim Iqbal
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It's a really interesting and diverse business. You're a farmer first, then a winemaker, then you're onto marketing and distribution. So it's multi-faceted and really…
— Drew Bledsoe
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When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero…
— Pete Rose
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break (Babe) Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he…
— Eddie Mathews
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
— Douglas MacArthur
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central…
— Edward Abbey
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If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
— Edward Abbey
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I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good…
— Douglas Adams
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for…
— George Jones
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I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right…
— Orson Scott Card
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Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.
— Henny Youngman
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The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
— John Quincy Adams
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Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
— Cliff Stearns
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that…
— Booker T. Washington
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Ten minutes? That's the women. It's not for the men; not for the real game, mate.
— Lleyton Hewitt
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As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless…
— Debbie Allen
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What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
— Ted Koppel
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The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are…
— Valentina Tereshkova
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Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to…
— Cornelia Funke
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A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and…
— Stephen Crane
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Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life.…
— Mike Tyson
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Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long…
— Mark Helprin
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Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
— Luis Bunuel
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