Ten Quotes

It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.

So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

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.

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

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.

Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

I'm on cloud nine.. i wouldn't even say cloud nine... more like cloud ten... cloud nine was old news.

Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs.

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped