Ten Quotes
2796 Ten quotes by 1978 unique authors
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I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks.…
— Charles de Lint
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Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have…
— Galileo Galilei
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Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing…
— Charlie Campbell
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Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of…
— Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
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Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind of mutated Mr.…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow…
— Robert W. Service
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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most…
— Emma Goldman
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Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. This charge is preposterous and we ought to boldly say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have…
— Barry Goldwater
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Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King…
— Catherine of Aragon
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I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning,…
— Billy Graham
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Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you can…
— Gary Shteyngart
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I like to do from racing my radio control cars to doing work at the zoo to poems to the TV show. There are a…
— Dhani Jones
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I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there? Eight…
— Michael Connelly
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Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And…
— Michael J. Fox
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Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of…
— Michael Franti
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I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all,…
— Morgan Freeman
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I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought…
— Noel Gallagher
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I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music…
— Jerry Garcia
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Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and…
— James A. Garfield
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We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't…
— Bill Gates
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Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work…
— Frank Gehry
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