#tenth

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#change #conversation #knock #nine-tenths #once

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that. ↗

— Asa Hutchinson

#carefully #checks #continue #i #i think

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor. ↗

— Barber Conable

#earn #income #less #only #own

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#clever #existing #nine-tenths #nonsense

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#books #certain #flashing #generals #irrational

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. ↗

— John Lennon

#nine-tenths #possession #problem

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#affection #durable #happiness #lives #nine-tenths

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought. ↗

— Mary Lyon

#much #nine-tenths #others #ought #our

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

— Groucho Marx

#ashes #contract #cremated #given #i

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it. ↗

— Heather Matarazzo

#been #give #given #i #i can