Top 297 Tenth Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

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

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

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.

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

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

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

Today I am announcing that I will not seek a tenth term in the United States Congress this November.

My dad had a great career and if I could win a tenth of what he did in football, I'd be happy.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

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.

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.

I got an award for Most Improved Player for volleyball in tenth grade that I cared about a lot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.

My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They say, '0.7.' I said, 'What's normal?' They say, '0.6.'; I said, 'One-tenth? You're telling me I'm one-tenth higher than the average man? Re-test that - you must have caught me on a low day.'

The Talented Tenth is alive and well today and visible in all arenas of prominence. 'That they may guide the mass away from the contamination and death of the worst, in their own and other races.' As they elevate themselves from the masses, they ensure their success and that of their fellow Talented Tenth friends.

That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

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.

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

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

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

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

I sold 2 million records on Loud, which was one-tenth of the size of Sony.

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

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

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

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

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

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

I give a tenth of my salary to charity every month, so in terms of giving back, I do my best.

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

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

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.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

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

Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

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.

For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.

Stuck as Adam Cartwright, I was only able to use about one-tenth of my ability.

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.

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

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

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

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

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

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

I don't think the art market is for everybody. Yeah, of course we have a global gallery. But we're like the one-tenth of the one-tenth of the one-tenth. OK? Not just who's buying but who's really seriously engaged with art.

I wish I'd done a tenth year of the 'Roseanne' show.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

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