Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.
...I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem...
There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.
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.
Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.
I tried to make my husband make his daughter like me. After ten years of failed attempts, I decided to make myself change.
...and they buried him there, just off the trail, in a glade ten miles from the majestic Salween, a long way from home, but what dead man is not?
I'll just stay ten feet away from him at all times so I don't accidentally trip and fall and land lips first on his mouth.
Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I didn't believe them. And the more that people told me, the more I went into the background and the less likely I was to sing.
A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.
I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what...
---on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions.
The carriage could only clop along at about ten miles per hour, which only accentuated Imogene’s excitement. She urged it onward: "Fly, horse, fly!
Last night you sat there singing to me 'nothing to hide, believe what I say' and not ten hours later you're standin' in front of me lyin
What is it? Tens, I can see the stick up your arse from here. I'm dying remember? Dying people don't have time for silly moods
Let us hush this cry of 'Forward', till ten thousand years have gone.
I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn’t have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.
You know those lists that get put together? ‘Top Ten Companies to Work For’ and that kinda thing? Yeah, you are so not helping this be one of those places.
Mr. Pot drank ten pots of coffee, even though I only made eight. That’s a savings of 20%!
With a grin, I told her, "I'll have more than ten minutes' notice that this battle is coming. In that way, this might be the most prepared I've ever been.
