Tenth Quotes

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. (T. E. Lawrence)
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. View quote
Richard Savage
On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract. View quote
Groucho Marx
The tenth Muse, who now governs the periodical press. View quote
Anthony Trollope
I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Nintendo DS is not standing still. As a tenth serious competitor decides to make a run at Game Boy, DS raises the bar on portable gaming, before they even get started. View quote
Reggie Fils-Aimé
Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. ... And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold. View quote
Milton Friedman
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. View quote
Billy Wilder
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. (A. E. Waite)
I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am.... It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mother? View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. View quote
Charlie Kaufman
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. View quote
Barber Conable
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. View quote
Daniel Yergin
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle. View quote
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
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. View quote
Heather Matarazzo
I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade. View quote
James Worthy
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. View quote
Thomas Perry
I'll have ten grams of rice, Mrs. Bass interrupted, one tenth of a hectogram of shrimp vindaloo, a dekagram of chana aloo masala, one thousand centigrams of tandori salmon, four samosas with surface area of nineteen cubic centimeters, five deciliters of mango lassi, and a sada rava dosai that's exactly nineteen centimeters long. View quote
Daniel Handler
...what is the constitutional bearing of these stipulations? ...It is perfectly monstrous...It means that we abandon our fiscal independence, together with our free-trade ways; that we subside into the tenth part of a Vehmgericht which is to direct us what sugar is to be countervailed, at what rate per cent. we are to countervail it, how much is to be put on for the bounty, and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff; and this being the established order of things, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention, in which the Britisher is only one out of ten, and the House of Commons humbly submits to the whole transaction. ("Shame.") Sir, of all the insane schemes ever offered to a free country as a boon this is surely the maddest. (Henry Campbell-Bannerman)
I'm stranded in the jungle, Taking all the heat they was giving. The night is dark but the sidewalk's bright And lined with the light of the living. From a tenement window a transistor blasts, Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast. She hit me with a Tenth Avenue freeze-out. Tenth Avenue freeze-out. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Let anyone who believes that a high standard of living is the achievement of labor unions and government controls ask himself the following question: If one had a "time machine" and transported the united labor chieftains of America, plus three million government bureaucrats, back to the tenth century-would they be able to provide the medieval serf with electric light, refrigerators, automobiles, and television sets? View quote
Ayn Rand
People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art. View quote
Haruki Murakami
The inescapable conclusion is that the direct contribution of man-hours and capital accumulation would hardly account for more than a tenth of the rate of growth in per capita product - and probably less. The large remainder must be assigned to an increase in efficiency in the productive resources, or the effects of changing arrangements, or to the impact of technological change, or to all three. View quote
Simon Kuznets