Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that
reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.
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HELEN ROWLAND Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nin...
HELEN ROWLAND Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
TERRY PRATCHETT In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
GEORGE BANCROFT The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
H. L. MENCKEN The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
PATRICIA C. WREDE I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves t...
JACK CANFIELD Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that realit...
ALDIS HODGE For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he...
STEPHEN KING Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi...
TERRY PRATCHETT If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely...
DESMOND BAGLEY Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
JULIE BURCHILL Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
JULIE BURCHILL In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a p...
G. K. CHESTERTON When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten time...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten time...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Nine out of ten males will believe anything, especially if it confirms their virility
ANDREA MARTIN The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE You spent a bundle. Nobody wants to look like a fashion victim.
VALERIE STEELE “Love is more powerful then hate, people change but nobody wants to see to believe. Some people sh...
MIKE GRIST In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten,...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
JULIE BURCHILL People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part ...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
HENRY ADDINGTON I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle
HENRY ADDINGTON Do not believe that you alone can be right.
The man who thinks that,
The man who maintains...
SOPHOCLES Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repa...
MADAME DE TENCIN Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is...
JAMES A. GARFIELD We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really sufferin...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really sufferin...
JOHN LUBBOCK There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
ALAIN DE BOTTON The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ...
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J. D. SALINGER I wish I was Rapunzel
Letting down her hair
But at the bottom of my tower
There's no...
RAE EARL Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
JON BON JOVI You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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BRANDY NORWOOD Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.
At other...
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ENRIQUE VEGA How many Irishmen are there who would purchase material prosperity at such a price? It is exactly su...
DOUGLAS HYDE Nine out of ten people love chocolate, and the 10th person is always lying.
ANONYMOUS You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o...
J. D. SALINGER Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?"
"Not particularly. You have that effect...
MARTINA BOONE Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
ANONYMOUS I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to dri...
GENNA RULON It's kind of like telling someone they have an ugly baby. Nobody wants to hear they have a TV commer...
SIMON ASSAAD Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for th...
HENRY JAMES Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE Man only ever scores nine out of ten
HAUSA PROVERB The Arousal of Intuition
(The Water Exercise)
Make a puddle of water on a smooth, no...
PAULO COELHO Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conve...
LISA KLEYPAS Sometimes, impossibility isn't about defying reason,
but simply lack of willingness to believe ...
TOBA BETA and anyway it’s just the same old story --
a few people just trying,
one way or another,...
MARY OLIVER To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS Yeah, I'm really used to the stage and I'm a fan of people being happy. My main goal is to have ever...
BEN MCCLELLAND Okay but he has a case for you," she said again, her voice singsong.
"Don't care."
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DARYNDA JONES Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start ...
KIN HUBBARD To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS One of the most important things I have found is that no one
school of thought has all of the answer...
LEWIS N. ROE We think the sell-off that we saw in Albertson's was excessive just given the sell-off, the stock to...
ASMA USMANI Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act;
When they sow that act, they will reap a habit...
PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ...
GARY F EVANS... I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is ...
MELISSA ROSENBERG Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone
MAYA ANGELOU And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
Ten...
LEWIS CARROLL He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what heCan't PerceiveAnd he's a Fool who tries to make such aB...
WILLIAM BLAKE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD There was obviously a concern, because nobody sets out to make a three-hour movie. Nobody particular...
FRANK DARABONT If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right th...
ANSELM FEUERBACH If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right t...
ANSELM FEUERBACH Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has
chosen not to accept it. They hav...
LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can...
LEWIS N. ROE The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc...
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J.K. ROWLING Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination
WILLIAM HAZLITT Nobody wants to retire from football.
LADAINIAN TOMLINSON I am under the impression that in nine out of ten cases I deal with windbags who do not fully realiz...
MAX WEBER He said he didn’t think Lenore should go to the G.O.D.
"Nobody ever finds anybody in a place ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If you never see a fool
You'll always be happy.
The one who keeps company with fool...
ANONYMOUS But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?"
"I'm not human," he sai...
RACHEL HARTMAN Nobody wants to be embarrassed. Those guys have great stuff, and they're very capable of embarrassin...
BILL HALL Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference ...
LAO TZU Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD I want people to be true to themselves and believe in themselves. I want people to stop looking to c...
JADE JAGGER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people...
WHOOPI GOLDBERG Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA When you use Cosmic Ordering you will move from cloud nine to cloud ten.
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DARYNDA JONES Holy shit, are you positive?"
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DARYNDA JONES Never trust a man with a penis.
DARYNDA JONES I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger. - T-SHIRT
DARYNDA JONES I chose the road less traveled. Now I'm lost.
DARYNDA JONES I know karate, and like two other Japanese words - T-SHIRT
DARYNDA JONES If life hands you lemons,keep them. Because, hey, free lemons.-T-Shirt
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DARYNDA JONES My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
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That, and I need to pee.
DARYNDA JONES A blank is the only thing I draw well. --T-SHIRT
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DARYNDA JONES I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.
DARYNDA JONES Okay but he has a case for you," she said again, her voice singsong.
"Don't care."
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DARYNDA JONES I intend to live forever. So far, so good. - T-SHIRT
DARYNDA JONES If god is watching us,
the least we can do is be entertaining.
--BUMPER STIC...
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"He's taken," I said, acce...
DARYNDA JONES I'm a virgin.
But this is an old shirt.
--T-SHIRT
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me, which has nev...
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DARYNDA JONES That's my entire weekend. I had plans"
"A Vampire Dairies marathon is not plans." She loo...
DARYNDA JONES You would use your body to get what you want?"
"In a heartbeat."
He was hurt. I could feel...
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I knew that i...
DARYNDA JONES Where you just possessed?" Cookie asked after a long moment, awe softening her voice. "'Cause let me...
DARYNDA JONES God is love, but Satan does that thing you like with his tongue.
--BUMPER STICKER
DARYNDA JONES Did you get checked out?”
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DARYNDA JONES Genius has its limitations.
Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker
DARYNDA JONES Gemma was so determined for me to deal with my PTSD, but I thought I was doing pretty well with it. ...
DARYNDA JONES The funny thing about GPS was it didn’t always send you in the right direction.
I knew that i...
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“Thr...
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“What memo? We’re getting memos now?”
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"Rig...
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‘'You know those women in nursing homes that have to be restrained...
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I'm not good at cocking guns.
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TOM JONES Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
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QUINCY JONES Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and ...
VINNIE JONES It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict...
GRACE JONES I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than wo...
CAROLYN JONES I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
CHUCK JONES The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
DAVY JONES You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the D...
JERRY JONES The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
KELLY JONES When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are...
DHANI JONES I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and bein...
FELICITY JONES The good, old-fashioned family can help. Students learn by example, and if their parents, aunts, unc...
AL JONES That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more...
AL JONES It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.
AL JONES Somebody must have run a red light, I'm thinking that's the Honda based on preliminary reports.
AL JONES He was kind of the old-style beat cop. He took care of his area; he really felt responsible for his ...
AL JONES We talked in the locker room about how we've improved so much. That's what you want a young group to...
AL JONES We dug ourselves a hole pretty deep and just couldn't get back out of it. We didn't score a field go...
AL JONES When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the mu...
ADAM JONES In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little ...
ADAM JONES I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
ADAM JONES Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
ADAM JONES I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
ADAM JONES I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes...
ADAM JONES I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
ADAM JONES I'm not a good guitar player.
ADAM JONES If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
ADAM JONES Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
ADAM JONES My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
ADAM JONES That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid st...
ADAM JONES We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that i...
ADAM JONES With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
ADAM JONES I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and th...
ADAM JONES I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
ADAM JONES That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
ADAM JONES We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
ADAM JONES