Ten Quotes

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.

With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes.

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

We're not just twice as powerful when we're together, but ten times as powerful.

It's been amazing to watch, because for Thor, which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

In anger, you look ten years older.

Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old...with fifteen years of practice.

When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

He who reckons ten friends has not one.

Do they allow tipping on the boat? - Yes, sir. Have you got two fives? - Oh, yes, sir. Then you won't need the ten cents I was going to give you.

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

You're ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.

Habit is ten times nature.

A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Intelligence is ten million rules.

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.

I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your thinking accordingly.

... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]