Ten Quotes

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

It should be clear to all, after the past ten years, that NATO isn't attacking Serbia because of Milosevic; it is attacking Milosevic because of Serbia.

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

With the EU taking in ten more countries and adopting a new Constitution, organisations need more than ever intelligent professional help in engaging with the EU institutions.

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven.

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!

Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.

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

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

I know I cannot do all the stuff that I did ten years ago.

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

I love doing Pilates and dance. It's fun to mix things up and change your program every ten days.

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.