Top 1200 Nine Lives Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

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

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

May we incorporate into our own lives the divine principles which he Joseph Smith so beautifully taught by example, that we, ourselves, might live more completely the gospel of Jesus Christ. . . May our lives reflect the knowledge we have that God lives, that Jesus Christ is His son, that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that we are led today by another prophet of God - even President Gordon B. Hinckley.

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.

I had my both my ACLs repaired in college and I broke my patella, so those were all nine-month ordeals, if not longer.

I was lucky enough to just play music as a living and not have a nine-to-five job. I didn't have to pay the bills so I was able to experiment.

I hope to see a more diversified country, where people can view everyone as equal individuals, where people can start seeing our young black and brown boys and girls and valuing their lives as we would value other lives.

I spent grades one through nine in Baltimore City, leaving for reasons that had nothing to do with the quality of education I was receiving.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

You go ahead. I'd rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds' urine.

I think that it's a good thing that you want to be part of making the world a better place, including between nine and five.

A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.

Being injured for nine months, it felt like a breeze to me mentally - nothing was really too difficult.

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have.

Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrongs no more.

The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

A lot of the people who live the lives of 'Crazy Rich Asians' don't see the humour of their lives simply because this is just who they are. Even though I'm from that part of the world, I'm no longer part of that world.

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.

Tyson Fury should be looked at as someone who conquered the world, defeating a nine-year king in Wladimir Klitschko.

When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up.

The stronger you are as a unit, the more you can control a race. The strongest cyclist in the world isn't as strong as two guys, let alone nine.

I was told by my father nine times a day that you were going to get a job the minute you finish your studies.

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.

Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon.

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.

A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

I only missed nine Premier League games from a possible 228 between August 2004 and May 2010.

First concert I saw was a British boy band called Take That when I was 14 or 15. I went with nine girls from school.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine songs out of that girl.

Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.

They're never gonna not put you in a box. It's something that they have to do, because nine times out of 10 people don't understand creativity.

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.

When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.