Tenth Quotes

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

Today I am announcing that I will not seek a tenth term in the United States Congress this November.

That's about the 1,000th and tenth time (I've been asked about my neck). It's OK. I'm been doing a little stuff. I got some stuff from UT, weights to build you back up.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

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 better than the first nine? I can't.

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 exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Over a period of 20 years, German reunification has cost 2 trillion euros, or an average of 100 billion euros a year. So, we have to ask ourselves: Aren't we willing to pay a tenth of that over several years for Europe's unity?

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.