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We are caught in the in between of what we already are what we are yet to be. — Tenth Avenue North

Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas. — George Iles

Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings. — Sonia Johnson

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it. — Henry David Thoreau

It was borrowed time anyway - the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of a grand duc and the casualness of chorus girls. — Howard Zinn

to offer one-tenth to God; but under the new covenant, ten-tenths are required. — Watchman Nee

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes. — Jerry B. Jenkins

The earliest complete Odyssey to have survived is from the late tenth century, now in Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence, — Adam Nicolson

I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only! — Ridley Scott

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. — Harlan F. Stone

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft. — John Dufresne

The money was nothing, not even one tenth of one percent of his worth. — Neil Hetzner

Who would have believed that a Wushu Master of the tenth degree black sash could need such a release? — Fierce Dolan

Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth ... — R.D. Blackmore

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are
and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart. — Thomas Sowell

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good. — Will Rogers

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is. — Lydia M. Child

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses! — Frank Scoblete

The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice. — Charlene Costanzo

An Arabic proverb: One insect is enough to fell a country. A Japanese proverb: Even an insect one-tenth of an inch long has five-tenths of a soul. My — Jenny Offill

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes. — Jodi Picoult

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. — William Feather

We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century. — Thomas B. Macaulay

[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation. — Joseph Sobran

Christianity is not about how much faith you have. Its about Who your faith is in. — Mike Donahey

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. — Plato

Boys. Nine times out of ten, they're wrong and the tenth time they made a lucky guess. — Kirn Hans

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. — Ryan Stiles

My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking. — J.D. Salinger

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

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away. — John Lothrop Motley

Today I am announcing that I will not seek a tenth term in the United States Congress this November. — Lincoln Diaz-Balart

The timber harvest on federal land in Oregon, including in the Willamette forest, is about one-tenth today what it was back then, — Anonymous

Wizard's Tenth Rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self. — Terry Goodkind

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

I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing. — Victoria Justice

Guys you have way too much invested in sport. Guys you are not the tenth man. You're a machine for turning beer into piss that's what you are! — Bill Maher

The very richest Americans - the top one-tenth of 1 percent - now have nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

My father always told me to wisen up, son.
Cause if you hung with nine broke friends, you're bound to be the tenth one. — PMD

Lord of brilliant light
You separate the night
And everything inside — Tenth Avenue North

We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it. — Benjamin Carson

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin

I know a member of one of New York's first families (first as you drive up Tenth Avenue) — Groucho Marx

Wow' said Rose 'I never Knew my wish really is your command.'
The Doctor (10th) grinned. 'One bag of chips and I'm anyone's — Stephen Cole

Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup. — Maggie Shipstead

Saint Guy of Anderlecht was the tenth-century Belgian saint of animals, stables, workhorses, and bachelors. — Edmund White

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

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade. — James Worthy

David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times. — Timothy Simons

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second. — Gloria Swanson

Systematic yoga and vipassana opens the "Dasham Duar" the mystical tenth spiritual gateway located at the top of the skull. — Amit Ray

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

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

For the tenth time, I wonder if I made a mistake escaping the castle. — Kassandra Lynn

She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.'
Maybe that explains it,' I said. — Jerry Spinelli

I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode. — Bill Lawrence

You're on tenth base, I can't find you. — Robert Ludlum

I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist. — Sonu Nigam

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. — B.C. Forbes

If joy is the armor, it can't be broken down — Tenth Avenue North

Why were we made just so, to find so many things that happened every day pretty? — George Saunders

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. — Will Rogers

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window. — Richard Dawkins

If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves. — Austin O'Malley

For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip. — Haddon W. Robinson

A life can change in a tenth of
a second.
or sometimes it can take
70
years. — Charles Bukowski

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space. — Will Rogers

The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won. — Sam Altman

If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life. — Warren Farrell

He stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job. — Hugh MacLeod

Always take a banana to a party. — Steven Moffat

about 40 million Chinese, a tenth of the country's population, were opium addicts. — Yuval Noah Harari

A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place — Bill McKibben

Ruby's tenth birthday party. She wore a red dress and we skated and she told me we were halfway to twenty and someday we would go to France. — Catherine Lacey

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. — Wayne Rogers

With more than thirty thousand suicides a year, the act is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. — Craig Johnson

Like the day Scoop's mother got bored of sipping brandy in her rocking chair and jumped from a tenth floor balcony. — R.D. Hale

If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it. — Zig Ziglar

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment. — Richard Whately

If i can do just one tenth of the good
Michael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world — Justin Bieber

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list. — Abbie Hoffman

If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts. — Ambrose

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature. — Walter Gilbert

Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. — William Shakespeare

But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing
the giving of a tenth . — Ronald Reagan

The timid man yearns for full value and asks for a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. — Mark Twain

A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think. — Cathleen Schine

I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues. — Jodi Picoult

Generally Canadian films are smaller. I think the market here is a tenth of the size of the States. So there's less resources to put into the films. — Kristen Hager

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. — Heather Matarazzo

From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,
Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. — Alexander Pope

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training. — Horace Mann

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on. — Jake Simmons Jr.

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. — Edgar Fiedler

37. That counsel I tenth, that thou trust never oath of an outlaw's son; — Anonymous

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

Oh no. Oh, hell to the no to the tenth power. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

This isn't the first time you've done this, or the fifth or the tenth. I guess it's time to think of it as your life. — Austin Grossman