Tenth Quotes
169 quotes by 143 authors
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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But Faith did not seem to come.…
— Dwight L. Moody
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Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
— Antoine Rivarol
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The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth...
— R.D. Blackmore
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Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.
— Maggie Shipstead
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About 90 percent of all soy is genetically modified (GMO). Soy is also one of the top seven allergens, and is widely known to cause…
— Gabriel Cousens
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The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy…
— Gore Vidal
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To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere,…
— Paul J. H. Schoemaker
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Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.
— Aldo Leopold
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In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
— John Lothrop Motley
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[T]hroÂ’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide?…
— Alexander Pope
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The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it's nice to go, 'Well, I'm gonna…
— Sarah Paulson
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If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably…
— Thomas Perry
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But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its…
— Daniel Yergin
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Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I…
— Leslie Moonves
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... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful,…
— Gerhard Richter
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I know a member of one of New York's first families (first as you drive up Tenth Avenue)
— Groucho Marx
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