A Quote by Patricia C. Wrede
Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
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Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?” “Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen, and neither will Therandil.” “I didn’t ask what you’d said about it,” the frog snapped. “I asked what you’re going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
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.
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.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
I like to do from racing my radio control cars to doing work at the zoo to poems to the TV show. There are a lot of things that I like to involve myself with, but I have a pretty packed schedule nine times out of ten. I have a good sense of working things in at the same time so that I can get all my hobbies in line.
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.
Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.
Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.
Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.
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