Quotes of: Ten-commandments Keyword

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

You won’t be able to do this ten years from now—just leave everything behind and go.

Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults

On a pitch black, starless night, a solitary man was trudging along the main road from Marchiennes to Montsou, ten kilometres of cobblestones running straight as a die across the bare plain between fields of beet.

Germinal

I suppose if you ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child really.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

She frowned at him. "Not every man thinks constantly of... of..." Darach grinned. "Aye, they do, demoiselle. Every man, from the time he is about ten until the day he dies, thinks frequently of that.

His Stolen Bride

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Hundman, like tens of thousands of other Americans, had had a wordless dream and all his life had lived a little part of it-a dream which was about one quarter hope and three quarters bitter disillusionment.

American Years

A brick has ten holes in two rows lining the center—perfect so that you and nine of your friends can each stick your little dicks in the brick after a few beers. 

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

A blanket could be used to spot the blind. I’d spot Helen Keller nine points in a ten-point basketball game. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

That night's show was watched by ten million people, so I guess that director at The Second City who said the audience "didn't want to see a sketch with two women" can go shit in his hat.

Bossypants

Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes - since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation.

Paul Weller

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what...

S. Jay Olshansky

I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.

Taylor Hawkins

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinari...

Whitney Houston

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain ...

David Miliband

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Alber...

Jerry Saltz

Winners run through the finish line. End your day with passion and enthusiasm.

The 10 Essential Habits of Sales Superstars: Plugging into the Power of Ten

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.

Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defense of One's Life)

We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody's business nobody's business.

History of Montague; A Typical Puritan Town

She smiled into his mouth. “That was … wow.” “It's always wow. You're wow. I'll never get enough of you, Lydia. Not after ten years in dreams; not after forever in real life.

Heart Of The Wolf