Nine Quotes - Page 39

• Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

  Joseph Epstein

  Courage, Bravery, Thirds

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• Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

  Hobart Brown

  Inspirational, Funny, Happiness

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• It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what I was going to be like, but she loved me because she carried me in her womb.

  Oscar Romero

  Mother, Moving, Heart

  "The Violence of Love".

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• When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mother, Daughter, Dad

  Frederick Buechner (1988). “Whistling in the dark: an ABC theologized”, Harpercollins

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• An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night, a burglar, whose heart is true, despite his wicked-looking face, who puts the little child in doom, to save her mamma's jewel case. This may bring tears to every eye; it does not set my heart on fire. I'd like to stand serenely by and watch that horrid child expire.

  Noel Coward

  Children, Heart, Eye

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• Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people.

  Tony Judt

  Home, Average, People

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.16, Penguin

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• I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

  Randall Jarrell

  Thinking, Culture, Definitions

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 391), 1993.

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• If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.

  George Carlin

  Stupid, Holiday, Weekend

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• We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Atheist, Ninety Nine

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• Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

  Wernher von Braun

  Baby, Science, Months

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• Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.

  Chuck Dressen

  Baseball, Team, Player

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• Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to make me that much stronger at the end of the game. My pitching philosophy is simpe. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

  Bob Gibson

  Baseball, Philosophy, Believe

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• Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.

  Dale Dauten

  Inspirational, Thank You, Appreciation

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• Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

  Peter Kreeft

  Atheist, Lying, Heart

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• It's really hard to find things that are worth leaving them for. [Balancing work and motherhood is] really hard. One night in Nashville, my son was screaming with a terrible stomachache. I was like, 'I have to get out of here!' but we had to finish. My friend Jenno, a mother of three who was producing, was great, reminding me that nine times out of 10, they just have gas.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mom, Mother, Son

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I think it's more than whether or not you win or lose. It's having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.

  Phil Mickelson

  Golf, Winning, Opportunity

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• In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

  Peter Lynch

  Luck, Investing, Six

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• Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, New York, Cheer

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.

  Ronald Reagan

  Feet, Ideas, President

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• They wanna bury me im worried. Im loosin my mind look down the barrel of my nine and my visions blurry. Fallen to pieces am I guilty? I pray to the lord but his laws be unfortunate because im guilty.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Law, Mind

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• Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Eye, Sarcasm

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World: Professor Challenger #1”, p.13, Zillmann Publishing

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• If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Lasts, Shots

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• To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

  Francis Marion Crawford

  Inspirational, Life, Basketball

  Francis Marion Crawford (1910). “The Complete Works”

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• Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Motivational Sports, Discipline

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.78, Crown Business

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• When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited .

  Kirk Kerkorian

  Strength, Encouragement, Strong

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