Ten Quotes
2796 Ten quotes by 1978 unique authors
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Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.
— Peter Kreeft
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Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away. . . . I can smell trouble right here in this…
— Thelma Ritter
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A Ten-Point Plan for Increased Spirituality: 1. Read Scriptures Daily. 2. Pray Fervently and Sincerely. 3. Fast Meaningfully. 4. Retire Early and Get Up Early.…
— Joe J. Christensen
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
— George Bernard Shaw
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You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten,…
— Pablo Picasso
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I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a…
— Richard Jeni
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I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day...
— Thelonious Monk
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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
— Oscar Peterson
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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
— Josh Billings
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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows…
— William Wordsworth
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We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house,…
— Nhat Hanh
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As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without…
— James Keller
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FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director…
— Satyajit Ray
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It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five…
— Abram Hoffer
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Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all…
— Eddie Irvine
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When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let's all have a party; I've lived the life of ten men. I lived all…
— Robbin Crosby
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Nine out of ten English chefs have their names on their chests. Who do they think they are? They're dreamers. They're jokes. Just ask yourself…
— Marco Pierre White
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When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
— Emo Philips
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I'm outa here, I'm only playing one song, and I'm not coming back for ten years! And when I come back..!
— The Rev
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With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it takes you about…
— George C. Wolfe
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There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors. That said, it…
— Peter Lynch
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