Ten Quotes
2796 Ten quotes by 1978 unique authors
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Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours…
— Enrique Vila-Matas
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
— Edgar Degas
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In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because…
— Paul R. Ehrlich
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Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the referendum in Quebec, the very existence of Canada was on the line... I had a responsibility to…
— Jean Chretien
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There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred;…
— Mary Antin
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I…
— Aldous Huxley
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Ten million years from now, when then sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen iceball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care…
— Tug McGraw
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I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I…
— Sandy Koufax
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Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law…
— Eustace Mullins
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We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
— Paul Harvey
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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but in the course…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand…
— Paul Washer
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No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.
— Richard Perle
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It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners.
— Roberto Baggio
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After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I had a letter…
— Tony Benn
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Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely . . . . Live…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God... It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.
— Ted Nelson
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I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have…
— Chantal Kreviazuk
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Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord…
— Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Every day kill just one, rather than today five, tomorrow ten . . . that is enough for you. Then your nerves are calm and…
— Erich Hartmann
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My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me.…
— A. P. Herbert
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