A Quote by Terry Pratchett

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

Terry Pratchett

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Chances Crop Million Nine Out Ten Times Up

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Terry Pratchett
English - Author
April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

Terry Pratchett

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

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.

A. C. Benson

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.

Douglas Adams

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.

Peter Lynch

Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.

Georgette Mosbacher

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

Colin Mochrie

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw

The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth power). The brain is obviously capable of an imponderably huge variety of activity; the fact that it is often organized and functional is quite an accomplishment!

Daniel J. Siegel

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

H. L. Mencken

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Jon Bon Jovi

Fall down nine times, get up ten.

Roz Savage

Nine million people - nine million people lost their jobs [in 2008]. Five million people lost their homes. And $13 trillion in family wealth was wiped out.Now, we have come back from that abyss. And it has not been easy.

Hillary Clinton

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.