#nine

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. ↗

— John Churton Collins

#ask #cases #flattery #nine #out

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#crew #day #determined #dismayed #leagues

We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played. ↗

— David Cone

#been #certainly #data #early #eighties

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

— Calvin Coolidge

#coming #ditch #down #down the road #into

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. ↗

— Francis Marion Crawford

#expect #itself #nine-tenths

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence. ↗

— Evan Dando

#behaviour #constant #feminine #get #gross

While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance. ↗

— William Dampier

#distance #followed #great #hill #last

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#able #answer #answered #been #despite

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#deciding #ninety #percent #politics #whom

Over and over again-in the movie, I have nine different people who have worked for Fox News network who have come forward and talked on camera, three of them anonymously, by the way. ↗

— Robert Greenwald

#camera #come #different #different people #forward