Best ten & reason Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The collected poems of John Ciardi

“Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.”

People Knows Want Humans Reason Four Seeing Ten Harder Wings Very Good Speed Faster Reason Why Sensible Inches Mice Gnome High Speed

Author:Terry Pratchett

“If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.”

Source: Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers

“When children ask me what's my favorite [role], I say to them, "Imagine having ten beautiful new puppies in a basket and you had to say which one is your favorite, and you simply couldn't because you love them all for different reasons." POPPINS was such a learning experience, as was THE SOUND OF MUSIC. I tell you, every one of them just helped me grow in what I do and did and each one was such a phenomenal working experience.”

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Author:Julie Andrews

“Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.”

Ifs Art Reason Seems Principles Atheism Return Ten Worship Beast Apes

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.”

Ifs Feels Reason Feelings Passion Interest Perfect Minutes Subjects Ten Clothes Concern Roots Dresses Complexes Indifferent Topics Straightforward Guarded Touchy Overbearing Deep Roots

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“I think it is said that Gauss had ten different proofs for the law of quadratic reciprocity. Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better. For two reasons: usually, different proofs have different strengths and weaknesses, and they generalise in different directions - they are not just repetitions of each other.”

Thinking Should Said Two Different Reason Law Ten Weakness Should Have Mathematics Proof Repetition Reciprocity Different Directions Theorems Strength And Weakness Quadratics

Author:Michael Atiyah

“If I owned any of these Hot New Issues that have doubled, tripled, quintupled or umptupled within days and in some cases hours after they were issued, I most certainly would grab my fabulous windfall, thank my lucky stars and invest the money. It's utter nonsense to think any newly issued stock is really worth two, ten or 20 times the [offering] price.... A management so stupid as to sell shares [cheap], and an underwriter so obtuse as not to discern the real value, together would provide reason enough for a sensible man to get rid of his shares.”

Ifs Thinking Men Two Real Reason Enough Together Values Stars Hours Cases Issues Share Stupid Lucky Ten Hot Management Sells Nonsense Sensible Offering Fabulous Real Value Lucky Star

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.”

Reason Born Sin Atheism Ten Conscience Nine Womb Disbelief Sins Not

Book:Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation

Source: Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation

“In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing. Whereas you move it into this more intimate thing, everything gets all quiet, someone says action, and you have to say the lines and make the words your own. It couldn't be any more different and it's weird sometimes trying to explain that to people. When I tell people that acting is much more terrifying to me than going out in front of ten thousand people, they don't quite believe it because for some reason that intimacy is just terrifying to me.”

People Trying Believe Different Sometimes Reason Whole Action Moving Lines Acting Fronts Thousand Quiet Ten Rings Intimacy Intimate Wrestling Going Out Adrenaline Inside And Outside

Author:Dave Bautista

“As soon as you direct such a question outward to your fellow man and not inward to yourself, you have set yourself on a judgment seat and thereby judged yourself. You have robbed yourself of what you had won by your own continence; you have taken one step forward but ten backward: and then you have reason to weep over your obstinacy, your failure to improve, and your pride.”

Men Reason Steps Taken Pride Ten Judgment Direct Fellows Seats Over You Judged Inward Fellow Man Steps Forward Asceticism Obstinacy

Author:Tito Colliander

“I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Giving Two Reason Whole Song Ten Computer Twelve Listeners Pulling Ipods

Author:David Byrne

“I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime, boy.”

Thinking I Can Reason Boys Ten Letting Go Dimes Never Let Go

Author:Mr. Krabs

“My environmentalism reared its head around the age of ten when I inexplicably become obsessed with littering. For some reason I considered it my personal responsibility to pick up litter wherever I found it and yell at anyone I saw contributing to the problem (much to the horror of my mother). I was a ten-year-old on a mission to clean up the streets! But it was years later when I became a mother myself that concern for my kids' future really ignited my passion and set me on my course. Once I started reading and educating myself, there was no turning back.”

“The reason is they failed to learned the primary lesson we should have learned from when Long Term Capital Management went belly up ten years ago. That is, investments that seem uncorrelated can be correlated simply because we're interested in it.”

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Author:Richard Thaler

“I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of film after ten years is honestly that if a picture doesn't get second-guessed you're looking at four Oscars, and if a picture does get second-guessed, you're not. I've got an advanced degree in that lesson.”

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Author:William Monahan

“I think that there's room for everyone. I don't think that if one person succeeds then another must fail. That's lunacy. I'm not sure what the reasons are for my philosophy, maybe it's the fact that if there are ten people doing the same job, we all know how we feel and what our high points and low points are.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Persons Reason Philosophy Facts Jobs Rooms Know How Failing Succeed Ten Lows Not Sure Lunacy High Points Low Points

Author:Judd Nelson

“I like making series, for a couple reasons. One, the repetition of routine is very healthy because I can get a little crazy; I want to be making things all the time. And if I publish something every week, I don't have to put every idea I have into one piece. It's more like, here's one idea: execute it, see it through, think about it, do it the best you can. And then there are going to be ten more ideas that come while you're making that, because creativity works that way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Littles I Can Ideas Reason Creativity Pieces Week Crazy Couple Healthy Ten Series Routine Repetition Publish Because I Can One Piece

Author:Paul Madonna

“A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. I have a commitment to accessibility. I believe in plot. I want an English professor to understand the symbolism while at the same time I want the people I grew up with - who may not often read anything but the Sears catalog - to read my books.”

“There is a brain mechanism that works to identify colour differences directly, without first identifying the absolute colour of each surface. So on my view there is no reason to suppose anything like ten million colour responses to surface viewed singly.”

Firsts Reason Differences Views Brain Millions Ten Absolutes Response Surface Colour No Reason Mechanism Identifying

Author:David Papineau

“Part of the reason I am not there sooner, is that I was not allowed to go to the United States. Now I am allowed. I am so thankful I have been given a second chance and I live there and already more has happened in six months for my career then in the last ten years.”

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Author:Shane Bunting

“Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive, and then just smile for a while about them.”

Want Trying Reason Might Dies Names Alive Thousand Ten Chaos Forgotten Lists Endless Reason Why Wanting To Die Just Smile

Author:Paul Baribeau

“One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.”

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Author:Jay-Z

“[Erwin Rommel] explained why in short words, what the two generals' message and then he explained his position and he gave some reason for his position. And then he said, "The ten minutes are over, and I have to leave now." Then my father said goodbye. He also told that us that in I think twenty or thirty minutes, I don't remember, "You will get a telephone call telling you that I have died of stroke."”

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Author:Manfred Rommel

“You can't go to church without praying ten or fifteen times for God to have mercy on you. You can't sing "Amazing Grace" without reminding yourself that the reason God's grace is amazing is it saves a wretch like you. This self-denigration stuff - Jesus died for my sins - is nothing but a guilt message. That's the thing we've got to get out from under. That's not Christianity. That's sort of fourth-century Christianity that got turned into doctrines and dogmas that we've never been able to escape.”

“We only went to the moon for military reasons. The space enthusiasts of the day kept saying, "Oh, we're on the moon; we should be on Mars in ten years." That's if it was driven by exploration, but it's never been driven by exploration.”

Ifs Should Years Reason Space Military Moon Ten Driven Exploration Mars

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.”

Years Reason Wanted Asks Ten Ask Me

Author:Noam Chomsky

“You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.”

Ifs Knows Giving Years Believe Reason Dies Minutes Scene Ten Equal Giving Up Hundred Plant Financial Roadside

Author:Robert Plant

“Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.”

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Author:Sophie Ellis Bextor

“I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.”

Firsts Kind States Reason Values United United States Rights Dangerous Exercise Ten Constitution Tired Criminals Amendments I'm Tired Throwback

Author:L. Neil Smith

“The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.”

“If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.”

Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

“You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.”

People Knows Reason Running Song Ten Balls Singers Do The Best Nashville

Author:Garth Brooks

“The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life - how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects - not the reason, the purpose.”

“And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.”

Firsts Said Reason Next Hours Plans Subjects Lessons Ten Nine Curious Day To Day Mock Turtles Alice Adventures In Wonderland

Author:Lewis Carroll

“According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do it. Why?" Jefferson asked, as Adams would recount. Reasons enough," Adams said. What can be your reasons?" Reason first: you are a Virginian and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second: I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third: You can write ten times better than I can.”

Writing Firsts Said I Can Reason Enough Ought Ten Thirds Independence Declaration Declaration Of Independence Obnoxious Virginians

Author:David McCullough

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.”

“You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I’d been on the island with Gilligan, he’d have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Reason Remember Courses Opinion Minutes Ten Stupidity Islands Episodes Incompetence Homicide

Book:The Dark-Hunters

Source: The Dark-Hunters

“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break!”

“Sir, this lane is for ten items or less. I’m counting thirteen items in your cart, including that hemorrhoid cream. And while hemorrhoids might give you a reason to be nasty, they don’t give you a reason to be in this lane.”

Giving Reason Might Ten Including Cream Nasty Items Counting Lanes Thirteen Carts Hemorrhoids

Author:J.A. Konrath

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