A Quote by Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Calvin Coolidge

Quote Topics

Before Cases Go Intercept Just Meet Never Nine Out Sit Someone Still Ten Trouble Will

Quote Author

Calvin Coolidge
American - President
July 4, 1872 - January 5, 1933

Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

Colin Mochrie

Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.

Adrian Pasdar

The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

You never want to get injured, of course. That's just not what you do, but in the scheme of things 12 years of professional fighting and having to sit out nine, ten months for an injury is not that bad.

Joseph Benavidez

Everone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won't do it. At nine you are still afraid. Only ten will move you, and when you're there, you'll know. No one can make that decision for you.

Vicki Myron

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

John Churton Collins

Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

Elizabeth Bowen

Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.

Lenny Kravitz

Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.

Ernest Holmes

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.

Laurence Steinberg

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Jane Austen

The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a capital system that reaches only the "right" cases, without dragging in the wrong cases, cases of innocence or cases where death is not proportionate punishment. Slowly, even reluctantly, I have realized the answer to that question is no- we will never get it right.

Scott Turow

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

Agnes Repplier

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.