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Ninety Nine quotes by Gisele Walko
#1. Blaine, basketball, football and baseball are for commoners, the lower ninety-nine percent. We need our own thing to play when we're not sitting around talking about our family's money. You're right Sterling, How about a game called lacrosse? It's a cross between an actual sport and just being fancy like la-dee-da. That's why we call it lacrosse. We could wear polo shirts…. #Quote by Gisele Walko
Ninety Nine quotes by Napoleon Hill
#2. Why? Personalities! Ninety-nine people out of every hundred who purchase life insurance policies do not know what is in their policies and, what seems more startling, do not seem to care. What they really purchase is the pleasing personality of some man or woman who knows the value of cultivating such a personality. Your #Quote by Napoleon Hill
Ninety Nine quotes by Jessie Ann Foley
#3. Maggie sipped her drink with the cat draped across her lap and the dog curled at her feet. The only sounds in the room were the crackling of the fire and Dan Sean's shallow snores. There were no CD's to play, no radio, no television. There was nothing. She was just sitting there in silence, getting drunk. It occurred to her that a person's first drunken experience shoud be in the basement of a friend's house, in a forest preserve, behind the bleachers of a football field. Certainly not in the company of a sleeping ninety-nine-year-old man. She giggled a little and wondered what Uncle Kevin would make of it. "Hot port?" he would say. "Very impressive, Mags. I would have thought you'd be more of a wine cooler type of girl. #Quote by Jessie Ann Foley
Ninety Nine quotes by Terry Pratchett
#4. It might have interested Newt to know that, of the thirty-nine thousand women tested with the pin during the centuries of witch-hunting, twenty-nine thousand said "ouch," nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine didn't feel anything because of the use of the aforesaid retractable pins, and one witch declared that it had miraculously cleared up the arthritis in her leg. #Quote by Terry Pratchett
Ninety Nine quotes by R.A. Torrey
#5. Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants, both in their Christian life and in their service. #Quote by R.A. Torrey
Ninety Nine quotes by Osho
#6. But you do just the opposite. You strengthen your thought-waves. You are seized by worthless thoughts and you co-operate with them. You are sitting alone, there is nothing to do and you start thinking of fighting the coming election. The dream begins! Nothing will please you short of reaching the president's chair. You have become a president in your dream. There are felicitations and you are enjoying them thoroughly! You never stop to think – what kind of stupidity is this! What are you doing? You are just giving energy to worthless fantasies. Your mind is filled with useless illusions of this kind.
The constant flow of dreams eats up a large amount of your energy. It is not for free! You purchase it at the cost of your life.

If we examine human life in detail, we will find that ninety-nine percent of the life is lost in fruitless dreams like this. Some dream of wealth, others of power, and others of various conquests. What will you gain even if you attain them all?

Thought-waves are nothing but dreams. Do not strengthen them. When the dream starts running within, shake yourself and break the dream as quickly as you can. #Quote by Osho
Ninety Nine quotes by Arlie Russell Hochschild
#7. I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli ... Suddenly, I found myself speaking the wrong language, dressed in the wrong clothes, picked up by the wrong mode of transportation - an embassy car instead of a bus. #Quote by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Ninety Nine quotes by Rajneesh
#8. As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love. #Quote by Rajneesh
Ninety Nine quotes by James Kelman
#9. Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers. #Quote by James Kelman
Ninety Nine quotes by Neal Stephenson
#10. Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds. #Quote by Neal Stephenson
Ninety Nine quotes by Larissa Ione
#11. Oh really I was just thinking about how great a gold filigree necklace and teardrop earrings would look on me, and at seventy five ninety nine plus shipping , its a freaking ,steal. But damn , I missed the deal because , oh that's right.. IM FUCKING FROZEN .. #Quote by Larissa Ione
Ninety Nine quotes by Kamil Ali
#12. IMBALANCE
Do not let one negative carry the same weight as ninety nine positives
Kamil Ali #Quote by Kamil Ali
Ninety Nine quotes by William MacAskill
#13. One additional unit of income can do a hundred times as much to the benefit the extreme poor as it can to benefit you or I [earning the typical US wage of $28,000 or £18,000 per year]. [I]t's not often you have two options, one of which is a hundred times better than the other. Imagine a happy hour where you could either buy yourself a beet for $5 or buy someone else a beer for 5¢. If that were the case, we'd probably be pretty generous – next round's on me! But that's effectively the situation we're in all the time. It's like a 99% off sale, or buy one, get ninety-nine free. It might be the most amazing deal you'll see in your life. #Quote by William MacAskill
Ninety Nine quotes by William Wirt
#14. He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies. #Quote by William Wirt
Ninety Nine quotes by Michael Pollan
#15. The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost
to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves. #Quote by Michael Pollan
Ninety Nine quotes by Gary Snyder
#16. Each time you go that road it gets more straight. #Quote by Gary Snyder
Ninety Nine quotes by Caryl Churchill
#17. We've got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We've got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We've got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong. #Quote by Caryl Churchill
Ninety Nine quotes by David Bishop
#18. An onion can make people cry, but an entertaining novel can make people cry and laugh, and smile, and relax." by David Bishop.

"If fast food restaurants sold men, he would be the ninety-nine-cent special." Maddie Richards in The Beholder.

"Money is something about which one can be more principled after they have an adequate supply." Matt Kile in Who Murdered Garson Talmadge.

"I have always had trouble recorking an opened curiosity." Matt Kile in Who Murdered Garson Talmadge. #Quote by David Bishop
Ninety Nine quotes by John Green
#19. Ninety-nine percent of the time, your parents never have to know, though. The school doesn't want your parents to think you became a fuckup here any more than you want your parents think you're a fuckup. #Quote by John Green
Ninety Nine quotes by K.A. Tucker
#21. Have you always loved yourself this much?"
"I had an awkward year in 'ninety-nine, but I got over it quick. #Quote by K.A. Tucker
Ninety Nine quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own. #Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Ninety Nine quotes by A. J. Jacobs
#23. Incidentally, I spent some time on the Purell website, where you can find a list of ninety-nine places germs lurk (in-flight magazines, movie tickets, gas-pump keypads, hotel room a/c controls, and on and on). It's hilarious and terrifying. The only place they don't mention is the Purell dispensers themselves. You know they're coated with germs. It's one of health's cruelest catch-22s. #Quote by A. J. Jacobs
Ninety Nine quotes by Tom Clancy
#24. Not a very nice place is it?" rosen asked as they came back for the last load.
"they say there's a hundred different kinds of snake there. ninety-nine are poisonous."
"and the other one?"
kelly handed a carton over to the doctor. "that one eats your ass whole. #Quote by Tom Clancy
Ninety Nine quotes by Kingsley Amis
#25. The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times. #Quote by Kingsley Amis
Ninety Nine quotes by Thornton Wilder
#26. Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. #Quote by Thornton Wilder
Ninety Nine quotes by Ashwin Sanghi
#27. In life, ninety-nine per cent is about good luck! Just remember that, son.' In a slightly argumentative tone I asked, 'But uncle, what about the balance one per cent? Surely that must be hard work or talent?' Laughing loudly, he declared triumphantly, 'The final one per cent? That's called bloody good luck, my boy! Simply keep at it and wait for your bloody good luck to kick in! #Quote by Ashwin Sanghi
Ninety Nine quotes by Debasish Mridha
#28. In some way or another we are all agnostics. We don't believe in ninety-nine percent of Gods, and we don't know the ultimate reality. #Quote by Debasish Mridha
Ninety Nine quotes by Heidi Baker
#29. But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin. #Quote by Heidi Baker
Ninety Nine quotes by Joan Collins
#30. All of a sudden I found myself with the reputation of being a swinger and a home-wrecker. Beverly Hills wives were supposed to live in fear in case I cast my green orbs in the direction of their men. Ninety-nine per cent of this was total fabrication. #Quote by Joan Collins
Ninety Nine quotes by Sherman Alexie
#31. I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame #Quote by Sherman Alexie
Ninety Nine quotes by Gary Chapman
#32. If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? - Matthew 18:12 niv #Quote by Gary Chapman
Ninety Nine quotes by Karl-Johan Persson
#33. Ninety-nine percent of everyday things are things we don't need - that goes for regular visits to the hairdresser just as it does for clothing. What would it mean if we all consumed 20 percent less? It would be catastrophic. It would mean 20 percent less jobs, 20 percent less taxes, 20 percent less money for schools, doctors, roads. The global economy would collapse. #Quote by Karl-Johan Persson
Ninety Nine quotes by Alexander Smith
#34. Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics. #Quote by Alexander Smith
Ninety Nine quotes by Gretchen Rubin
#35. For work: I bought some pens. Normally, I used makeshift pens, the kind of unsatisfactory implements that somehow materialized in my bag or in a drawer. But one day, when I was standing in line to buy envelopes, I caught sight of a box of my favorite kind of pen: the Deluxe Uniball Micro. "Two ninety-nine for one pen!" I thought. "That's ridiculous." But after a fairly lengthy internal debate, I bought four. It's such a joy to write with a good pen instead of making do with an underinked pharmaceutical promotional pen picked up from a doctor's office. My new pens weren't cheap, but when I think of all the time I spend using pens and how much I appreciate a good pen, I realize it was money well spent. Finely made tools help make work a pleasure. #Quote by Gretchen Rubin
Ninety Nine quotes by Albert Einstein
#36. Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information. #Quote by Albert Einstein
Ninety Nine quotes by Thomas A. Edison
#37. His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. #Quote by Thomas A. Edison
Ninety Nine quotes by Henry David Thoreau
#38. There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man. #Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Ninety Nine quotes by Jack Welch
#39. Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think. #Quote by Jack Welch
Ninety Nine quotes by Lincoln Steffens
#40. The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered. #Quote by Lincoln Steffens
Ninety Nine quotes by Tony Bennett
#41. I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world. #Quote by Tony Bennett
Ninety Nine quotes by Eliezer Yudkowsky
#42. Trying to figure out how something works on that deep level, the first ninety-nine explanations you come up with are wrong. The hundredth is right. So you have to learn how to admit you're wrong, over and over and over again. It doesn't sound like much, but it's so hard that most people can't do science. Always questioning yourself, always taking another look at things you've always taken for granted," like having a Snitch in Quidditch, "and every time you change your mind, you change yourself. #Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Ninety Nine quotes by David Sanborn
#43. Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community. #Quote by David Sanborn
Ninety Nine quotes by Thomas A. Edison
#44. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. #Quote by Thomas A. Edison
Ninety Nine quotes by Delia Owens
#45. I've about had it with flying," he grumbled, switching off the plane's systems, "It's ninety-nine percent boring and one percent sheer terror. #Quote by Delia Owens
Ninety Nine quotes by Bill Shoemaker
#46. There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first. #Quote by Bill Shoemaker
Ninety Nine quotes by Kamaran Ihsan Salih
#47. Thee slaves of God have ninety-nine characters in them, if you be good to them, they will be better tenfold to you. #Quote by Kamaran Ihsan Salih
Ninety Nine quotes by Josephine Tey
#48. Ninety-nine people out of a hundred, receiving a telegram reading /all is discovered: fly/, will snatch a toothbrush and make for the garage. (p. 227 of 300, chapter 19) #Quote by Josephine Tey
Ninety Nine quotes by John Piper
#49. If we live twenty-nine years or if we live ninety-nine years, would not any hardships be worth the saving of one person from the eternal torments of hell for the everlasting enjoyment of the glory of God? #Quote by John Piper
Ninety Nine quotes by John Green
#50. Prodigy
Huge, megalithic corporation seeks a talented, ambitious prodigy to join our exciting dynamic Prodigy Division for summer job. Requirements include at least fourteen years' experience as a certified child prodigy ability to anagram adeptly (and alliterate agilely), fluency in eleven languages. Job duties include reading, remembering encyclopedias, novels, and poetry; and memorizing the first ninety-nine digits of pi.33 #Quote by John Green
Ninety Nine quotes by Huey Long
#51. I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men. #Quote by Huey Long
Ninety Nine quotes by Jeaniene Frost
#52. Fabian didn't flinch under Vlad's harsh analysis. "You have no idea what it's like, existing between worlds," he said, floating closer instead of backing away. "We are neither the living or the undead. It takes years to cope with the fact that even though over ninety-nine percent of everyone who dies crosses over to the next place, you are left behind. Years to accept that everything you worked for in your life is gone, and the shell of memory is all that remains. Years to recover from hopelessly trying to communicate with loved ones, only to fail time and again because no one except the crazed, psychics, the undead, or other ghosts can see you. Years to accept---even if you don't understand why---that vampires and ghouls will treat you worse that they do vermin, even though they are no human than you are."
Fabian advanced again, until his finger disappeared into Vlad's chest. "I'd dare the strongest of your race or any other to say that they've conquered the same hardships my people have overcome. So think again before you question a ghost's worth, or judge those younger ones who are still in the process of becoming tougher than anyone tied to flesh will ever be."
Stunned silence filled the air once Fabian was finished. I wanted to break out in apologies and applause all at the same time, but I was still recovering from my shock at how my mild-mannered, Casperesque friend had just unloaded a truck full of I-dare-yous onto one of the scariest vampires in existence. #Quote by Jeaniene Frost
Ninety Nine quotes by Brit Bennett
#53. She may hear this story, someday, and wonder what it has to do with her. A girl hiding her scared in her prettiness, an unwanted baby, a dead mother. These are not her heartbreaks. Every heart is fractured differently and she knows the pattern of her cracks, she traces them like lines across her palm. She has a living mother and besides, she was always wanted. Prayed for, even. Now she's grown, or at least she thinks she is. But she hasn't yet learned from the mathematics of grief. The weight of what has been lost is always heavier than what remains. She's heard her granddaddy preach about the good shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine behind in search of the one lost sheep.
But what about the flock he abandons? she wonders. Aren't they lost now too? #Quote by Brit Bennett
Ninety Nine quotes by Ken Follett
#54. there's more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people. p890 #Quote by Ken Follett
Ninety Nine quotes by William C. Dietz
#55. Take a look around," the instructor had advised. "Ask yourself if there's anyone else who is better qualified to do the job. Not in the entire galaxy, but right there, at that point in time. If the answer is 'yes,' ask them to accept command, and do everything you can to support them. If the answer is 'no,' which it will be ninety-nine percent of the time, then take your best shot. That's all any of us can do. #Quote by William C. Dietz
Ninety Nine quotes by Mario Batali
#56. Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to. #Quote by Mario Batali
Ninety Nine quotes by Chad Hurley
#57. Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it. #Quote by Chad Hurley
Ninety Nine quotes by Reginald Aldworth Daly
#58. Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth's volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for ... the origin of chains of high mountains ... and the rise of lava to the earth's surface. #Quote by Reginald Aldworth Daly
Ninety Nine quotes by Robert Powell
#59. I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick. #Quote by Robert Powell
Ninety Nine quotes by Wendell Phillips
#60. It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong. #Quote by Wendell Phillips
Ninety Nine quotes by Darynda Jones
#61. Are you free?" he asked. "No, but I'm on sale for a dollar ninety-nine. #Quote by Darynda Jones
Ninety Nine quotes by Anthony Horowitz
#62. I love to kill fish,' Sayle went on. 'But when I saw this specimen of Physalia physalis, I knew I had to capture it and keep it. You see, it reminds me of myself.'
'It's ninety-nine per cent water. It has no brain, no guts and no anus.' Alex had dredged up the facts from somewhere and spoken them before he knew what he was doing. #Quote by Anthony Horowitz
Ninety Nine quotes by Alice Schroeder
#63. He added one catch: She must sign a noncompete agreement, a contract designed so that she could never again compete with him. This was something he wished he'd done before. The absurdity of imposing a noncompete agreement on a ninety-nine-year-old woman was far from lost on him. Nevertheless, Buffett was taking no chances. #Quote by Alice Schroeder
Ninety Nine quotes by Rajneesh
#64. I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage? I am all for it. #Quote by Rajneesh
Ninety Nine quotes by Kerrelyn Sparks
#65. After four hundred and ninety-nine years of existence, Connor Buchanan arrived at an inescapable conclusion regarding himself. He was a coldhearted old bastard. #Quote by Kerrelyn Sparks
Ninety Nine quotes by Ray Bradbury
#66. Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for ... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. #Quote by Ray Bradbury
Ninety Nine quotes by Jim Butcher
#67. There are some basic tenets that ninety-nine percent of all Wiccans follow, but at its core the faith is all about individual freedom. Wiccans believe that as long as you aren't hurting anyone else by doing it, you should be free to act and worship in whatever way you'd like. #Quote by Jim Butcher
Ninety Nine quotes by Charles Sheehan-Miles
#68. Alex, you're so beautiful, sometimes just looking in our eyes makes my heart stop. Even if I never see you again after today ... even if I get to be ninety nine years old, and have a life that goes on without you ... I will never, ever forget our first kiss. #Quote by Charles Sheehan-Miles
Ninety Nine quotes by Paul Murray
#69. It gives the war a whole new dimension, you know, hearing from someone right there in the thick of it. They really connected with it.'

'Maybe it reminds them of school,' she suggests. 'Didn't someone describe the trenches as ninety-nine per cent boredom and one per cent terror?'

'I don't know about boredom. God, the chaos of it, the brutality. And it's so vivid. I'd definitely be interested in reading his poetry, if only to see how he can go from describing, you know, people getting their guts blown out, to writing about love.'

'Maybe it's not that much of a leap,' she says. #Quote by Paul Murray
Ninety Nine quotes by C.S. Lewis
#70. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority ... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada. #Quote by C.S. Lewis
Ninety Nine quotes by Osho
#71. And this goes on the whole life. We never exactly pinpoint the cause. That's how misery goes on growing. Once rightly diagnosed, ninety-nine percent of the problem disappears immediately. In the very finding of the right diagnosis, the problem disappears. #Quote by Osho
Ninety Nine quotes by William Godwin
#72. A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin. #Quote by William Godwin
Ninety Nine quotes by Holly Goldberg Sloan
#73. And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart #Quote by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Ninety Nine quotes by John Cage
#74. Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what they are doing. They're involved in high finance. Fascinating form of gambling. #Quote by John Cage
Ninety Nine quotes by George Washington Carver
#75. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. #Quote by George Washington Carver
Ninety Nine quotes by William Sadler
#76. If I have a better idea, I say, 'Can we try one like this?' I try not to step on writers' toes, but ninety-nine percent of the time, it ends up in the movie, and sometimes it's the line that everyone remembers and quotes from the movie. #Quote by William Sadler
Ninety Nine quotes by Tessa Bailey
#77. I thought Ireland was the land of one thousand welcomes." – Willa.

"I'm knocking it down to nine-hundred ninety nine." – Shane. #Quote by Tessa Bailey
Ninety Nine quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
#78. In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. #Quote by Edgar Allan Poe
Ninety Nine quotes by Jill Santopolo
#79. As far as I'm concerned, ninety-nine percent of surprises should be avoided at all cost. When I can prepare for something, I'm much better at handling it. #Quote by Jill Santopolo
Ninety Nine quotes by Martin Lings
#80. In after-years he would tell of an incident that took place at one of their encampments: "We were with the Prophet when a Companion brought in a fledgling that he had caught, and one of the parent birds came and threw itself into the hands of him who had taken its young. I saw men's faces full of wonderment, and the Prophet said: 'Do ye wonder at this bird? Ye have taken its young, and it hath thrown itself down in merciful tenderness unto its young. Yet I swear by God, Your Lord is more merciful unto you than is this bird unto its fledgling. And he told the man to put back the young bird where he had found it.

He also said: "God hath a hundred mercies,and one of them hath He sent down amongst jinn and men and cattle and beasts of prey. Thereby they are kind and merciful unto one another, and thereby the wild creature inclineth in tenderness unto her offspring. And ninety-nine mercies hath God reserved unto Himself, that therewith He may show mercy unto His slaves on the day of the Resurrection. #Quote by Martin Lings
Ninety Nine quotes by Ally Condie
#81. That's when I realize that the statistics the Officials give us do not matter to me. I know there are many people who are happy and I am glad for them. But this is Ky. If he is the one person who falls by the wayside while the other ninety-nine are happy and fulfilled, that is not right with me anymore. I realize that I don't care about the Officer pacing below or the other hikers among the trees, or really anything else at all, and that is when I realize how dangerous this truly is. #Quote by Ally Condie
Ninety Nine quotes by Daniel Libeskind
#82. Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. #Quote by Daniel Libeskind
Ninety Nine quotes by Will Durant
#83. Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history. #Quote by Will Durant
Ninety Nine quotes by Karen Marie Moning
#84. Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. #Quote by Karen Marie Moning
Ninety Nine quotes by Swami Vivekananda
#85. To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read, let them become familiar with the great principles underlying these ideas, and it is ninety-nine to one that the charm will come over them, and fascination will be the result. Slow and silent, as the gentle dew that falls in the morning, unseen and unheard yet producing a most tremendous result, has been the work of the calm, patient, all-suffering spiritual race upon the world of thought. #Quote by Swami Vivekananda
Ninety Nine quotes by Rajneesh
#86. Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick, dizzy, something going berserk in your mind. You cannot go on looking at Picasso's painting long enough. You would like to get away, because the painting has not come from a silent being. It has come from a chaos. It is a by product of a nightmare. But ninety-nine percent art belongs to that category. #Quote by Rajneesh
Ninety Nine quotes by Philip Yancey
#87. That, at least, is the vision of the church in the New Testament: a colony of heaven in a hostile world. Dwight L. Moody said, Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian. #Quote by Philip Yancey
Ninety Nine quotes by Rebecca Solnit
#88. Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth - and in our minds, where it all begins and ends. That so much change has been made in four or five decades is amazing; that everything is not permanantly, definitively, irrevocably changed is not a sign of failure. A woman goes walking down a thousand-mile road. Twenty minutes after she steps forth, they proclaim that she still has nine hundred ninety-nine miles to go and will never get anywhere. #Quote by Rebecca Solnit
Ninety Nine quotes by Thomas A. Edison
#89. Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. #Quote by Thomas A. Edison
Ninety Nine quotes by Wilkie Collins
#90. When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal. #Quote by Wilkie Collins
Ninety Nine quotes by Ambrose Bierce
#91. SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven. #Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Ninety Nine quotes by Leo Tolstoy
#92. Imagine a flock of pigeons in a corn field. Imagine that ninety-nine of them, instead of pecking the corn they need and using it as they need it, start to collect all they can into one big heap. Imagine that they do not leave much corn for themselves, but save this big heap of corn on behalf of the vilest and worst in their flock. Imagine that they all sit in a circle and watch this one pigeon, who squanders and wastes this wealth. And then imagine that they rush at a weak pigeon who is the most hungry among them who darest to take one grain from the heap without permission, and they punish him. If you can imagine this, then you can understand the day-to-day behavior of mankind. - WILLIAM PALEY #Quote by Leo Tolstoy
Ninety Nine quotes by Robert Farrar Capon
#93. Parables are told only because they are true, not because the actions of the characters in them can be recommended for imitation. Good Samaritans are regularly sued. Fathers who give parties for wayward sons are rightly rebuked, Employers who pay equal wages for unequal work have labor-relations problems. And any Shepherd who makes a practice of leaving ninety-nine sheep to chase after a lost one quickly goes out of the sheep-ranching business.
The parables are true only because they are like what God is like, not because they are models for us to copy. It is simply a fact that the one thing we dare not under any circumstances imitate is the only thing that can save us. The parables are, one and all, about the foolishness by which Grace raises the dead. They apply to no sensible process at all - only to the divine insanity that brings everything out of nothing. #Quote by Robert Farrar Capon
Ninety Nine quotes by Jack London
#94. On Editors:

"... The chief qualification of ninety-nine per cent of all editors is failure. They have failed as writers. Don't think they prefer the drudgery of the desk and the slavery to their circulation and to the business manager to the joy of writing. They have tried to write, and they have failed. And right there is the cursed paradox of it. Every portal to success in literature is guarded by those watch-dogs, the failures of literature. The editors, the sub-editors, associate editors, most of them, and the manuscript readers for the magazines and book-publishers, most of them, nearly all of them, are men who wanted to write and failed. And yet they, of all creatures under the sun the most unfit, are the very creatures who decide what shall and what shall not find its way into print–they, who have proved themselves not original, who have demonstrated that they lack the divine fire, sit in judgment upon originality and genius. And after them comes the reviewers, just so many more failures. Don't tell me that they have not dreamed the dream and attempted to write poetry and fiction; for they have, and they have failed. Why, the average review is more nauseating than cod-liver oil.... #Quote by Jack London
Ninety Nine quotes by William John Locke
#95. Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance. #Quote by William John Locke
Ninety Nine quotes by Harold Geneen
#96. Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative. #Quote by Harold Geneen
Ninety Nine quotes by Cory Lidle
#97. Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly. #Quote by Cory Lidle
Ninety Nine quotes by Sujit Lalwani
#98. WINNER:is A Runner who Wins Inspite Of Ninety Nine Excellent
Runners! #Quote by Sujit Lalwani
Ninety Nine quotes by Maria Semple
#99. You know what it's like when you go to IKEA and you can't believe how cheap everything is, and even though you may not need a hundred tea lights, my God, they're only ninety-nine cents for the whole bag? Or: Sure the throw are filled with a squishy ball of no-doubt toxic whatnot, but they're so bright and three-for-five-dollars that before you know it you've dropped five hundred bucks, not because you needed any of this crap, but because it was so damn cheap? #Quote by Maria Semple
Ninety Nine quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
#100. Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming. #Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer
Ninety Nine quotes by Charles Yu
#101. Look at that," he said. "How the ink bleeds." He loved the way it looked, to write on a thick pillow of the pad, the way the thicker width of paper underneath was softer and allowed for a more cushiony interface between pen and surface, which meant more time the two would be in contact for any given point, allowing the fiber of the paper to pull, through capillary action, more ink from the pen, more ink, which meant more evenness of ink, a thicker, more even line, a line with character, with solidity. The pad, all those ninety-nine sheets underneath him, the hundred, the even number, ten to the second power, the exponent, the clean block of planes, the space-time, really, represented by that pad, all of the possible drawings, graphs, curves, relationships, all of the answers, questions, mysteries, all of the problems solvable in that space, in those sheets, in those squares. #Quote by Charles Yu
Ninety Nine quotes by Thomas A. Edison
#102. Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration. #Quote by Thomas A. Edison
Ninety Nine quotes by Fulton J. Sheen
#103. This figure upon the Cross is not a MVD agent or a Gestapo inquisitor, but a Divine Physician, Who only asks that we bring our wounds to Him in order that He may heal them. If our sins be as scarlet, they shall be washed white as snow, and if they be as red as crimson, they shall be made white as wool. Was it not He Who told us, "I say to you, that even so there shall be more joy in Heaven upon one sinner that doth penance than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance" (Luke 15:7)? In the story of the prodigal, did He not describe the Father as saying, "Let us eat and make merry: because this my son was dead and is come to life again; was lost and is found" (Luke 15:23, 24)? Why is there more joy in Heaven for the repentant sinner than for the righteous? Because God's attitude is not judgment but love. In judgment, one is not as joyful after doing wrong as before; but in love, there is joy because the danger and worry of losing that soul is past. He who is sick is loved more than he who is well, because he needs it more. Some will feign sickness to solicit love and pretend wounds that the beloved may bind them. #Quote by Fulton J. Sheen
Ninety Nine quotes by Swami Vivekananda
#104. Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise. #Quote by Swami Vivekananda
Ninety Nine quotes by Osamu Dazai
#105. To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born. #Quote by Osamu Dazai
Ninety Nine quotes by Frederick Forsyth
#106. in police work ninety-nine percent of the effort is routine, unspectacular enquiry, checking and double-checking, laboriously building up a web of parts until the parts become a whole, the whole becomes a net, and the net finally encloses the criminal with a case that will not just make headlines but stand up in court. He #Quote by Frederick Forsyth
Ninety Nine quotes by Ray Bradbury
#107. The things you are looking for, Montag, are in the world but the only way the
average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Don't ask
for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or
library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you
were headed for shore."
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury #Quote by Ray Bradbury
Ninety Nine quotes by William Shakespeare
#108. Over a span of twenty years, Shakespeare churned out an impressively whopping thirty-eight plays, 154 love sonnets, and two epic narrative poems. While most people associate him with his plays, it was his sonnets that likely earned him admiration among his contemporaries. Yes, that's right: In his lifetime, Shakespeare garnered more acclaim for his sonnets than he did for his plays.
In England during the 1590s, writing plays was considered a bit hackish - a way to pay the bills - and not an intellectual pursuit. Writing sonnets was all the rage - and a way to gain literary prestige. These poems weren't published for the plebeian public, but were written down and shared among the literati - and aristocrats looking for some intellectual cachet by becoming patrons to brilliant but perhaps financially strapped writers. So, while Shakespeare likely wrote nearly all of his love sonnets in the early to mid 1590s, they weren't officially collected and published until 1609, well after the fad had passed.
W. H. Auden said of Shakespeare's sonnets: "They are the work of someone whose ear is unerring." In today's less poetry-friendly world, appreciation of these sonnets tends, sadly, to be relegated to classrooms, Valentine's Day, and anniversaries. Which is too bad, because - though they do indeed rhyme - they are far superior to the ditties found in ninety-nine-cent greeting cards. In fact, they cover the whole gamut of love - the good, the bad, the erotic, and the ugly, i #Quote by William Shakespeare
Ninety Nine quotes by Jayne Ann Krentz
#109. Trust me, Wainwright, ninety-nine times out of a hundred you can bet the bank that I'm serious."
"What about the one time when you're not?"
"I'm asleep. #Quote by Jayne Ann Krentz
Ninety Nine quotes by Osho
#110. So start with the waking state. When you are hungry eat, but always remember that it is the body that is hungry, not you. If you hurt your leg, wash and clean the wound, apply medication, but always remember that it is the body that is hurt, not you. This much remembrance – and you will find that ninety-nine percent of the pain has vanished. This slight knowledge, this little awareness removes so much of your suffering. One percent is bound to remain because the knowledge is not total. When knowledge becomes total all of the suffering disappears.
Buddha said that an awakened person is beyond suffering. You can cut off the limbs of such a person, you can throw him in the fire, you can kill him, but you cannot make him suffer, because he stands apart from all that is happening around him. #Quote by Osho
Ninety Nine quotes by Sylvia Day
#111. Angel, getting you off is ninety-nine percent of the fun for me. #Quote by Sylvia Day
Ninety Nine quotes by Dave Winfield
#112. I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store. #Quote by Dave Winfield
Ninety Nine quotes by Rick Yancey
#113. Something weird," Ben said. "You would think, with ninety-nine percent of us gone, the two percent would get along better."
Um, that would be one percent, Parish. #Quote by Rick Yancey
Ninety Nine quotes by Rankin
#114. At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity. #Quote by Rankin
Ninety Nine quotes by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#115. She spun to face him. "Listen, Hellboy, we need to make this quick. I have garage sales to hit and naughty souls to claim. Decide." "I do not understand." Was this goddess tormenting him for sport? Why did she call him "Hellboy?" How very rude! She poked at his bare chest with a razor sharp fingernail. "You hate taking orders." Sì, true. After all, I am vampire. "And even if you decided to listen like a good little boy, the odds of pulling this off are slim to none." I happen to excel at all things impossible. I am a vampire! "So don't come crying if you end up in your queen's dungeon…" Vampires do not cry, silly woman. "Tortured three times a day for all eternity, which is where you have a ninety-nine point nine, nine, nine percent chance of landing if you don't do exactly as I say." Actually, those numbers are quite encouraging. He thought his odds were somewhere between pigs flying and hell freezing over. "Buon. I understand. Tell me what you saw, what I must do. #Quote by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
Ninety Nine quotes by Mark Twain
#116. It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing - and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that. #Quote by Mark Twain
Ninety Nine quotes by Fatima Farheen Mirza
#117. No, I mean to the other place. The next place. I don't think I'll make it. I don't think you'll find me there." . . . "Listen to me." Baba held on to his arm. "You could never be more wrong, Amar. We taught you one way, but there could be others. We don't even know, even we can only hope. How many names are there for God?"
"Ninety-nine."
"Some contradict each other, remember? Didn't you just say to me--what if this is meant to show us more? What if we are meant to look closer?" . . .
"We will wait until you are allowed in," Baba said, as if to himself. "I will wait."
Baba pointed at the sky, and Amar looked, past the stars and past the lighter patch of the Milky Way, past the moon, and maybe God was there and maybe God wasn't, but when Baba said to him, "I don't think He created us just to leave some of us behind," Amar believed him. Amar wanted to. #Quote by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Ninety Nine quotes by C.S. Lewis
#118. I couldn't believe that nine-hundred and ninety-nine religions were completely false and the remaining one true. In reality, Christianity is primarily the fulfilment of the Jewish religion, but also the fulfilment of what was vaguely hinted in all the religions at their best. What #Quote by C.S. Lewis
Ninety Nine quotes by Eminem
#119. Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to
I just found out my mom does more dope than I do #Quote by Eminem
Ninety Nine quotes by David Ogilvy
#120. Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything. #Quote by David Ogilvy
Ninety Nine quotes by Anna  Clark
#121. If you wanted to kill a city, that is the recipe. And yet Flint was very much alive. In 2014, the year of switch to a new source of drinking water, it was the seventh-largest city in the state. On weekdays, its population swelled as people commuted into town for work in teh county government, the region's major medical centers, four college campuses, and other economic anchors. For all the empty space, teens in shining dresses still posed for prom photos in the middle of Saginaw Street, the bumpy brick road that is Flint's main thoroughfare. Parents still led their children by the hand into the public library for Saturday story time. Older gentlemen lingered at the counter of one of Flint's ubiquitous Coney Island diners, and the waitresses at Grandma's Kitchen on Richfield Road kept the coffee flowing. For about ninety-nine thousand people, Flint was home. #Quote by Anna Clark
Ninety Nine quotes by George Washington Carver
#122. Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. #Quote by George Washington Carver
Ninety Nine quotes by Dan Pearce
#123. I was receiving at least ninety-nine incredible, positive, and life-changing responses for every negative or abusive one, yet I couldn't stop looking at the one percent. I couldn't get them out of my mind. I let them kill my excitement. I let them destroy my love for what I was doing. I let them shut me down. I let them bully me into changing the way I did things around here.
I almost stopped. I almost gave up. I almost quit writing.
But every time, I remembered my dad.
He taught me better than that.
And I forced myself to be excited again. I forced myself to see the goal and vision of why I was excited in the first place. I forced myself to start skipping over the negative replies and start diving into the loving ones. #Quote by Dan Pearce
Ninety Nine quotes by J.K. Rowling
#124. The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. #Quote by J.K. Rowling
Ninety Nine quotes by Thomas Lynch
#125. I will, I do, Amen, Here Here, Let's
eat, drink and be merry. Marriage is
the public spectacle of private
parts:
cheque-books and genitals, house-wares, fainthearts,
all doubts becalmed by kissing
aunt, a priest's
safe homily, those tinkling glasses
tightening those ties that truly bind
us together forever, dressed to the nines.

Darling, I reckon maybe thirty years,
given our ages and expectancies.
Barring the tragic or untimely, say,
ten thousand mornings, ten thousand evenings,
please God, ten thousand moistened nights like this,
when, mindless of these vows, our opposites,
nonetheless, attract. Thus, love's subtactraction:
the timeless from the ordinary times --
nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine. #Quote by Thomas Lynch
Ninety Nine quotes by Glen Cook
#126. If you always do the easier thing, then you cannot possibly remain steadfast when it becomes necessary to take a difficult stand. You must do what you know to be right. And you do know. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred you do know and you are just making excuses because the right thing is so hard, or just inconvenient. #Quote by Glen Cook
Ninety Nine quotes by Cory Ingram
#127. Some people will tell you that Toronto, in the summer, is the nothing more than a cesspool of pollution, garbage, and the smells of a hundred ethnicities competing for top spot in a race won historically by curry, garlic, and the occasional cauldron of boiled cabbage. Take a walk down College Street West, Gerrard Street East, or the Danforth, and you'll see; then, they add - these people, complaining - that the stench is so pervasive, so incorrigible, nor merely for lack of wind, but for the ninety-nine percent humidity, which, after a rainstorm, adds an eradicable bottom-note of sweaty Birkenstocks and the organic tang of decaying plant life. This much is true; there is, however, more to the story. Take a walk down the same streets and you'll find racks of the most stunning saris - red with navy brocade, silver, canary, vermillion and chocolate; marts with lahsun and adrak, pyaz and pudina; windows of gelato, zeppole, tiramisu; dusty smoke shops with patio-bistros; you'll find dove-white statuary of Olympian goddesses, mobs in blue jerseys, primed for the World Cup - and more, still, the compulsory banter of couples who even after forty years can turn foul words into the bawdiest, more unforgettable laughter (and those are just the details). Beyond them is the container, the big canvas brushed with parks and valleys and the interminable shore; a backdrop of ferries and islands, gulls and clouds - sparkles of a million wave-tips as the sun decides which colours to leave on it #Quote by Cory Ingram
Ninety Nine quotes by Stephanie Perkins
#128. It was around the time of the divorce that all traces of decency vanished, and his dream of being the next great Southern writer was replaced by his desire to be the next published writer. So he started writing these novels set in Small Town Georgia about folks with Good American Values who Fall in Love and then contract Life-Threatening Diseases and Die.
I'm serious.
And it totally depresses me, but the ladies eat it up. They love my father's books and they love his cable-knit sweaters and they love his bleachy smile and orangey tan. And they have turned him into a bestseller and a total dick.
Two of his books have been made into movies and three more are in production, which is where his real money comes from. Hollywood. And, somehow, this extra cash and pseudo-prestige have warped his brain into thinking that I should live in France. For a year.Alone.I don't understand why he couldn't send me to Australia or Ireland or anywhere else where English is the native language.The only French word I know is oui, which means "yes," and only recently did I learn it's spelled o-u-i and not w-e-e.
At least the people in my new school speak English.It was founded for pretentious Americans who don't like the company of their own children. I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.
Instead,I'm stuck with ninety-nine other students. There are twenty-five people #Quote by Stephanie Perkins
Ninety Nine quotes by Jocelyn K. Glei
#129. Stage One is simply being able to sit down and work, if only for a single hour. Don't laugh. Ninety-nine out of a hundred can't do it. This stage is entry-level. It's kindergarten. #Quote by Jocelyn K. Glei
Ninety Nine quotes by John McPhee
#130. Some miners' wives take in washing and make more money than their husbands do. In every gold rush from this one to the Klondike, the suppliers and service industries will gather up the dust while ninety-nine per cent of the miners go home with empty pokes. #Quote by John McPhee
Ninety Nine quotes by Carla Power
#131. Modern Muslims often simply cling to the external signs of their faith: "People are busy worrying about their beards, or their headscarves," he observed. "So the faith becomes like their identity. It happens like this in every culture, every faith. The outer aspects to become more important, while the soul inside is forgotten." He paused, shook his head, and gazed mournfully out a the crowd. "At the end of the day, people are carrying around a dead body, with no soul."

"Why do Muslims have so much suffering, all over the world?" he demanded. "We are carrying the body of Islam! We don't have submission. We have got the law, but without the hikma - the wisdom - behind it. Religion hasn't come to give people an identity! Its purpose is not so you can say, 'We belong to this group.' But at this moment ninety-nine percent of Muslims treat religion as identity! But God does not like identity. He does not want people to be proud of belonging. He wants faith, and he wants action. #Quote by Carla Power
Ninety Nine quotes by Francesca Lia Block
#132. I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine ... ninety-five ... ninety-two ... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go? #Quote by Francesca Lia Block
Ninety Nine quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
#133. A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. #Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel
Ninety Nine quotes by Lev Shestov
#134. Practical advice. - People who read much must always keep it in mind that life is one thing, literature another. Not that authors invariably lie. I declare that there are writers who rarely and most reluctantly lie. But one must know how to read, and that isn't easy. Out of a hundred bookreaders ninety-nine have no idea what they are reading about. It is a common belief, for example, that any writer who sings of suffering must be ready at all times to open his arms to the weary and heavy-laden. This is what his readers feel when they read his books. Then when they approach him with their woes, and find that he runs away without looking back at them, they are filled with indignation and talk of the discrepancy between word and deed. Whereas the fact is, the singer has more than enough woes of his own, and he sings them because he can't get rid of them. L'uccello canta nella gabbia, non di gioia ma di rabbia, says the Italian proverb: "The bird sings in the cage, not from joy but from rage." It is impossible to love sufferers, particularly hopeless sufferers, and whoever says otherwise is a deliberate liar. "Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." But you remember what the Jews said about Him: "He speaks as one having authority!" And if Jesus had been unable, or had not possessed the right, to answer this skeptical taunt, He would have had to renounce His words. We common mortals have neither divine powers nor divine rights, we can only l #Quote by Lev Shestov
Ninety Nine quotes by Shel Silverstein
#135. Larry's such a liar---
He tells outrageous lies.
He says he's ninety-nine years old
Instead of only five.
He says he lives up on the moon,
He says that he once flew.
He says he's really six feet four
Instead of three feet two.
He says he has a billion dollars
'Stead of just a dime.
He says he rode a dinosaur
Back in some distant time.
He says his mother is the moon
Who taught him magic spells.
He says his father is the wind
That rings the morning bells.
He says he can take stones and rocks
And turn them into gold.
He says he can take burnin' fire
And turn it freezin' cold.
He said he'd send me seven elves
To help me with my chores.
But Larry's such a liar---
He only sent me four. #Quote by Shel Silverstein
Ninety Nine quotes by Rea Lidde
#136. I love nine hundred and ninety nine facial expressions of Jemma Garner, none of them is sad look. #Quote by Rea Lidde
Ninety Nine quotes by Timothy Ferriss
#137. It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming. It's easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s. #Quote by Timothy Ferriss
Ninety Nine quotes by T.S. Eliot
#138. Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time;
He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.
He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme
A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.
Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wives
And more – I am tempted to say, ninety-nine;
And his numerous progeny prospers and thrives
And the village is proud of him in his decline.
At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy,
When he sits in the sun on the vicarage wall,
The Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well, of all …
Things … Can it be … really! … No! … Yes! …
Ho! hi!
Oh, my eye!
My mind may be wandering, but I confess
I believe it is Old Deuteronomy!"

Old Deuteronomy sits in the street,
He sits in the High Street on market day;
The bullocks may bellow, the sheep they may bleat,
But the dogs and the herdsman will turn them away.
The cars and the lorries run over the kerb,
And the villagers put up a notice: ROAD CLOSED -
So that nothing untoward may chance to disturb
Deuteronomy's rest when he feels so disposed
Or when he's engaged in domestic economy:
And the Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well of all …
Things … Can it be … really! … No! … Yes! …
Ho! hi!
Oh, my eye!
My sight's unreliable, but I can guess
That the cause of the trouble is Old Deuteronomy! #Quote by T.S. Eliot
Ninety Nine quotes by Henry James
#139. Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. #Quote by Henry James
Ninety Nine quotes by William Faulkner
#140. Ninety-nine percent talent ... ninety-nine percent discipline ... ninety-nine percent work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never as good as it can be done. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. #Quote by William Faulkner
Ninety Nine quotes by Anonymous
#141. Arguably, the era's most disruptive technology is the solar panel. Its price has dropped ninety-nine per cent in the past four decades, and roughly seventy-five per cent in the past six years; it now produces power nearly as cheaply as coal or gas, a condition that energy experts refer to as grid parity. #Quote by Anonymous
Ninety Nine quotes by Wilferd Peterson
#142. Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm. #Quote by Wilferd Peterson
Ninety Nine quotes by Betty Comden
#143. Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine. #Quote by Betty Comden
Ninety Nine quotes by Samuel Adams
#144. I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were to perish, and only one of a thousand to survive and retain his liberty. One such freeman must possess more virtue, and enjoy more happiness, than a thousand slaves. #Quote by Samuel Adams
Ninety Nine quotes by Catherine Ryan Hyde
#145. We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which #Quote by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Ninety Nine quotes by Brian Godawa
#146. Nimrod continued, "These were the one percent of wealthy pigs who ruled over the ninety-nine percent of people with their greed and their selfishness! But I swear to you by my very head and by the head of my queen Semiramis, that as our subjects you will never go hungry!" The crowd burst out in applause. He milked it, "You will never be without shelter in the great city of Babylon!" More applause resounded. "You will never be without health and welfare!" The applause turned to jubilation. Nimrod reeled them in like a fish on a line. "You will be taken care of from birth to death under the mighty rule of Nimrod, emperor of the earth!" The masses swarmed with worship and screams of orgasmic release. Nimrod had secured their total dependency upon city-state and king. Nimrod had become their lord and savior. #Quote by Brian Godawa
Ninety Nine quotes by Willie Nelson
#147. Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. #Quote by Willie Nelson
Ninety Nine quotes by Dan Gemeinhart
#148. I am a lunatic. Not an idiot. I go at night. To the kitchen. It's been terribly messy." The librarian paused, working his fingers into Ninety-Nine's fur. Ninety-Nine closed his eyes and leaned back into the scratching finger. "And ice cream is my favourite food. It's kept. In the freezer. Of course. #Quote by Dan Gemeinhart
Ninety Nine quotes by Pope Francis
#149. Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered. #Quote by Pope Francis
Ninety Nine quotes by Walter Levine
#150. Ninety-nine percent of everything you do in life is attitude. If you have a relationship with God ... you're going to learn to ask the one question in life that covers everything: How can I help you? #Quote by Walter Levine
Ninety Nine quotes by Catherynne M Valente
#151. Every cat knows how to keep his owner feeding them: You may scratch and bite ninety-nine times, but the hundredth time, you must leap into a lap and press your nose to their nose. Rules are for dogs. #Quote by Catherynne M Valente
Ninety Nine quotes by Albert Einstein
#152. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. #Quote by Albert Einstein
Ninety Nine quotes by Thomas Jefferson
#153. Truth can stand by itself ... If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth. #Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Ninety Nine quotes by Jonathan Tucker
#154. The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water. #Quote by Jonathan Tucker
Ninety Nine quotes by Peter Menzel
#155. Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep. #Quote by Peter Menzel
Ninety Nine quotes by James Altucher
#156. Ninety-nine percent of the people on the street will lick the flavor right off your Life Saver if you let them. #Quote by James Altucher
Ninety Nine quotes by Charles P. Chiniquy
#157. Do not answer to us that these are exceptional cases, for I am ready to prove that this unspeakable degradation and immorality are the normal state of the greater part of the priests of Rome. Father Hyacinthe has publicly declared, that ninety-nine out of one hundred of them, live in sin with the females they have destroyed. And not only the common priests are, for the greater part, sunk in that bottomless pit of secret or public infamy, but the bishops and popes, with the cardinals, are no better. Who #Quote by Charles P. Chiniquy
Ninety Nine quotes by Hale White
#158. There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them. #Quote by Hale White
Ninety Nine quotes by J.K. Rowling
#159. A good thrashing is what's needed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Have you been beaten often? #Quote by J.K. Rowling
Ninety Nine quotes by Busy Philipps
#160. I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't. #Quote by Busy Philipps
Ninety Nine quotes by Simon Rich
#161. "It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice. #Quote by Simon Rich
Ninety Nine quotes by Edward Abbey
#162. Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the worst and corrupts the best ... Refuse to participate in evil; insist on taking part in what is healthy, generous, and responsible. Stand up, speak out, and when necessary fight back. Get down off the fence and lend a hand, grab a-hold, be a citizen - not a subject. #Quote by Edward Abbey
Ninety Nine quotes by Nicholson Baker
#163. At some point you have to set aside snobbery and what you think is culture and recognize that any random episode of Friends is probably better, more uplifting for the human spirit, than ninety-nine percent of the poetry or drama or fiction or history every published. Think of that. Of course yes, Tolstoy and of course yes Keats and blah blah and yes indeed of course yes. But we're living in an age that has a tremendous richness of invention. And some of the most inventive people get no recognition at all. They get tons of money but not recognition as artists. Which is probably much healthier for them and better for their art. #Quote by Nicholson Baker
Ninety Nine quotes by Tim Ferriss
#164. Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity. #Quote by Tim Ferriss
Ninety Nine quotes by Bruce Springsteen
#165. Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the full dollar. #Quote by Bruce Springsteen
Ninety Nine quotes by Maggie Stiefvater
#166. The wind nudged it for ninety-nine weeks in a row, and still nothing happened; the barn did not budge. But on the one hundredth week, the wind nudged the barn and the barn fell onto itself. It was not that the one hundredth week of nudging was any stronger than the previous weeks. It was not even that the one hundredth week of nudging was what had actually knocked the barn over. The ninety-nine weeks of nudging were what had truly done the job, but the one hundredth was the one around to take the credit. #Quote by Maggie Stiefvater
Ninety Nine quotes by Jonathan Maberry
#167. I work at T-Town, which is about ninety-nine percent men, and all of them either are alpha personalities or think they are. That said, what we have here is the standard dynamic for sexual tension. I'm moderately good-looking. I have big boobs, and I get hit on by everyone from the pastor of my church to baristas at Starbucks, and by every single guy at T-Town except for my boss and the range master. I don't blame them and I don't judge them. It's part of the procreative drive hardwired into us, and we haven't evolved as a species far enough exert any genuine control over the biological imperative. You, on the other hand, are a very good-looking man of prime breeding age. Old enough to have interesting lines and scars--and stories to go with them--and young enough to be a catch. You probably get laid as often as you want to, and you can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of times women have said no to you. Maybe--and please correct me if I've strayed too far into speculation--being an agent of a secret government organization has led you to buy into the superspy sex stud propaganda perpetuated by James Bond films."
"My name is Powers," I said. "Austin Powers."
She ignored me and plowed ahead. "We're in the middle of a crisis. We may have to work closely together for several days, or even several weeks. Close-quarters travel, emotions running high, all that. If it's all the same to you, I'd rather not spend the next few days living inside a trite off #Quote by Jonathan Maberry
Ninety Nine quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller
#168. Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do. #Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller
Ninety Nine quotes by Neil Gaiman
#169. Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent. #Quote by Neil Gaiman
Ninety Nine quotes by Henry David Thoreau
#170. Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves. #Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Ninety Nine quotes by Stephenie Meyer
#171. I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming. #Quote by Stephenie Meyer
Ninety Nine quotes by John F. Kennedy
#172. We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation. #Quote by John F. Kennedy
Ninety Nine quotes by Arianna Huffington
#173. Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout. #Quote by Arianna Huffington
Ninety Nine quotes by Susan Cain
#174. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. #Quote by Susan Cain
Ninety Nine quotes by C.S. Lewis
#175. Don't be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you've been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority. I believe there is such a place as New York. I haven't seen it myself. I couldn't prove by abstract reasoning that there must be such a place. I believe it because reliable people have told me so. The ordinary man believes in the Solar System, atoms, evolution, and the circulation of the blood on authority -because the scientists say so. Every historical statement in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada. None of us could prove them by pure logic as you prove a thing in mathematics. We believe them simply because people who did see them have left writings that tell us about them: in fact, on authority. A man who jibbed at authority in other things as some people do in religion would have to be content to know nothing all his life. #Quote by C.S. Lewis
Ninety Nine quotes by Henry A. Kissinger
#176. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. #Quote by Henry A. Kissinger
Ninety Nine quotes by Daphne Du Maurier
#177. I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five. #Quote by Daphne Du Maurier
Ninety Nine quotes by Jim Butcher
#178. I've heard that nature abhors a vacuum - though if that's true, then I can't figure why about ninety-nine zillion percent of creation is vacuum. #Quote by Jim Butcher
Ninety Nine quotes by T.C. Boyle
#179. Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of it is the unconscious and ten percent is control. In music, I think it's probably more like ninety-nine percent the unconscious. It's just a beautiful thing happening through you. And so, too, is writing a great story. #Quote by T.C. Boyle
Ninety Nine quotes by Eric Weiner
#180. Saying grace before a meal. Watching our breath. Repeating the ninety-nine names of Allah. Whirling like a dervish. Prayer. They all have one objective: to get us to pause just long enough to realize that life, your life, is a freaking miracle. The least you can do is pay attention. #Quote by Eric Weiner
Ninety Nine quotes by Munia Khan
#181. Our creator is one. However you name him. Whatever you call him. He is the only one having 99 names ... #Quote by Munia Khan
Ninety Nine quotes by Osamu Dazai
#182. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting. #Quote by Osamu Dazai
Ninety Nine quotes by Nelson Algren
#183. I'd put the ninety-nine billion dollars - whatever it is - that's being appropriated for the Air Force and the Navy, and I'd put it into schools. I'd put it into traveling scholarships. #Quote by Nelson Algren
Ninety Nine quotes by Cecil Rhodes
#184. Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen #Quote by Cecil Rhodes
Ninety Nine quotes by Mark Twain
#185. I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it. The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves. Think of it! One kind-hearted creature spies upon another, and sees to it that he loyally helps in iniquities which revolt both of them. Speaking as an expert, I know that ninety- nine out of a hundred of your race were strongly against the killing of witches when that foolishness was first agitated by a handful of pious lunatics in the long ago. And I know that even to-day, after ages of transmitted prejudice and silly teaching, only one person in twenty puts any real heart into the harrying of a witch. And yet apparently everybody hates witches and wants them killed. Some day a handful will rise up on the other side and make the most noise--perhaps even a single daring man with a big voice and a determined front will do it--and in a week all the sheep will wheel and follow him, and witch-hunting will come to a sudden end.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race--the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desi #Quote by Mark Twain
Ninety Nine quotes by Agatha Christie
#186. One man in a thousand can see the moons of Jupiter. Because the other nine hundred and ninety-nine can't see them there's no reason to doubt that the moons of Jupiter exist, and certainly no reason for calling the thousandth man a lunatic. #Quote by Agatha Christie
Ninety Nine quotes by David Halberstam
#187. One percent of the population ruled - and they were all grafters - while the other ninety-nine percent live under the worst kind of feudalism. #Quote by David Halberstam
Ninety Nine quotes by Frederick Barthelme
#188. Edward Lasco was on the screened porch of his rented house in a comfortable but not elegant older section of the town where he'd lived for the past fifteen years when his wife, Elise, who six months before had left him and moved to a nearby city to work in a psychiatric hospital, came around the side of the house and stood beside the screen looking in. She had on a business outfit - natural linen suit, knee-high boots, dark glasses with at least three distinguishable colors tiered top to bottom in the lenses - and she carried a slick briefcase, thin and shiny. Her hair was shorter than he'd seen it, styled in a peculiar way so that it seemed it spots to jerk away from her head, to say, "I'm hair, boy, and you'd better believe it." Edward had come outside with a one-pint carton of skim milk and a ninety-nine-cookie package of Oreos and a just-received issue of InfoWorld, and he was entirely content with the prospect of eating his cookies and drinking his milk and reading his magazine, but when he saw Elise he was filled with a sudden, very unpleasant sense that he didn't want to see her. It'd been a good two and a half months since he'd talked to her, and there she was looking like an earnest TV art director's version of the modern businesswoman; it made him feel that his life was fucked, and this was before she'd said a word. #Quote by Frederick Barthelme
Ninety Nine quotes by Cyril Connolly
#189. From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique. #Quote by Cyril Connolly
Ninety Nine quotes by Novoneel Chakraborty
#190. Almost ninety nine percent of relationships break because at least one of the two shows dishonesty – in whatever form or degree – towards it. #Quote by Novoneel Chakraborty
Ninety Nine quotes by Michael Pollan
#191. Okay, but what about microbial disease? "To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than one percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors." In fact, the twentieth-century war on bacteria - with its profligate use of antibiotics, and routine sterilization of food - has undermined our health by wrecking the ecology of our gut. "For the first time in human history, it has become important to consciously replenish our microflora." Hence the urgency of cultural revival. And #Quote by Michael Pollan
Ninety Nine quotes by George Wald
#192. I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system. #Quote by George Wald
Ninety Nine quotes by Lisa Mantchev
#193. Ariel looked at her then, instead of the sky, instead of the horizon that surely beckoned to him. "Out of a thousand different winds, I think I can resist nine hundred and ninety-nine of them.
Now she was the one unable to swallow. "And the last one?"
"That one wrenches the beating heart from my chest, the blood from my veins, the marrow from my bones." Grasping her hand, he brought it up to his face and rubbed it against his cheek. Pain radiated from his pale skin, from his eyes, from his lips when they grazed her knuckles. "You've two birds to do your bidding, my fair huntress, but I want you to choose me, to love me above all others, to make the pain in my soul worthwhile ... or I would be free of you. #Quote by Lisa Mantchev
Ninety Nine quotes by Bree Despain
#194. The bible says that a good shepard, even if he has one hundred sheep, if he loses but one of them in the wilderness, he must leave the other ninety-nine behind to go looking for that one. #Quote by Bree Despain
Ninety Nine quotes by Fernando Sabino
#195. Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine. #Quote by Fernando Sabino
Ninety Nine quotes by Hasse Jerner
#196. Being ninety nine percent sure opens for a possibility that you might be a hundred percent wrong. #Quote by Hasse Jerner
Ninety Nine quotes by Rachel Hawkins
#197. Why did you break in Mrs. Casnoff's desk for?"
Information on Archer. After he left.
"Ah. You're welcome, by the way?"
For what?
She jiggled the nail harder. "For putting him in his place the other night. Working with The Eye," she scoffed. "Yeah, that's a brilliant plan."
He's just trying to think of something," I said automatically. I wasn't sure why I was defending him when I'd basically said that idea was the stupidest thing ever to have stupided, but I didn't like the scorn in her voice. Well, my voice, her words.
Elodie paused in trying to open the desk drawer and shoved my hair back with both hands. "What's it going to take for you to realize that Archer Cross is bad news? He's an Eye. He's a liar and a jerk, and he's not nearly as funny as he thinks he is. And you're betrothed to Cal. Boys who can heal all wounds and are super hot, to boot? Don't exactly come around every day."
I don't think about Cal like that.
Pressing the point of the nail back into the lock, Elodie snorted. "Um, hi, I've been in your head. You totally think about him like that."
Look,, this isn't a slumber party, I snapped. Can you please get back to work?
"Fine," she muttered. "Don't listen to me. But I'm telling you, Cal is the way to go. Heck, if I had a body, I wouldn't mind-"
I'm going to need you to stop right there.
I'm ninety-nine percent sure she wasn't going to stop right there, but before she could say anything else, the lock o #Quote by Rachel Hawkins
Ninety Nine quotes by Theodore Dreiser
#198. Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards. #Quote by Theodore Dreiser
Ninety Nine quotes by John Stuart Mill
#199. To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. #Quote by John Stuart Mill
Ninety Nine quotes by Brigid Kemmerer
#200. It was nice to sit with someone who doesn't share my DNA and doesn't want to rag on me about my father's misdeeds. It was nice to go somewhere. To do something.
My life has collapsed to the point where a ninety-nine-cent coffee with a stranger is meaningful. #Quote by Brigid Kemmerer
Ninety Nine quotes by John Stuart Mill
#201. There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as an outrage to their feelings; as a religious bigot, when charged with disregarding the religious feelings of others, has been known to retort that they disregard his feelings, by persisting in their abominable worship or creed. But there is no parity between the feeling of a person for his own opinion, and the feeling of another who is offended at his holding it; no more than between the desire of a thief to take a purse, and the desire of the right owner to keep it. And a person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse. It is easy for any one to imagine an ideal public, which leaves the freedom and choice of individuals in all uncertain matters undisturbed, and only requires them to abstain from modes of conduct which universal experience has condemned. But where has there been seen a public which set any such limit to its censorship? or when does the public trouble itself about universal experience. In its interferences with personal conduct it is seldom thinking of anything but the enormity of acting or feeling differently from itself; and this standard of judgment, thinly disguised, is held up to mankind as the dictate of religion and philosophy, by nine tenths of all moralists and speculative writers. These teach that things are right because they are right; because we feel them to be so. They tell us to search in our own mind #Quote by John Stuart Mill
Ninety Nine quotes by Caryl Chessman
#202. A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels. #Quote by Caryl Chessman
Ninety Nine quotes by Rick Riordan
#203. I call it Andskoti, the Adversary. It is woven with the most powerful paradoxes in the Nine Worlds - Wi-Fi with no lag, a politician's sincerity, a printer that prints, healthy deep-fried food, and an interesting grammar lecture! #Quote by Rick Riordan
Ninety Nine quotes by James Rollins
#204. Overfishing of the past fifty years has driven the population of large fish down by ninety percent. And climate change is acidifying and warming the waters, lessening its ability to hold oxygen, suffocating marine life. We are rapidly killing the seas beyond the ability to heal. #Quote by James Rollins
Ninety Nine quotes by Chris Kurtz
#205. Cats may have nine lives, but pigs . . . don't . . . give . . . up. #Quote by Chris Kurtz
Ninety Nine quotes by Chuck Dressen
#206. Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball. #Quote by Chuck Dressen
Ninety Nine quotes by Malcolm X
#207. If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife. #Quote by Malcolm X
Ninety Nine quotes by Magdalena Neuner
#208. I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine. #Quote by Magdalena Neuner
Ninety Nine quotes by Cherrie Lynn
#209. I trust that I raised a strong enough woman to know who's worthy of her and who isn't. If this guy is good enough for you, and he's the one who has you floating around on cloud nine and giving you back your spark, you can be damn sure he's good enough for me. #Quote by Cherrie Lynn
Ninety Nine quotes by Charles Pellegrino
#210. For every first-class dog that entered the lifeboats, twenty-nine steerage women and nineteen children died. Emily Badman and Kathy Gilnagh seemed destined to be counted among the lost, having found themselves penned in behind a drawn gate, deep within the stern. An armed, junior officer stood on the other side. "Following orders," he insisted. "It's not time for you to go up. #Quote by Charles Pellegrino
Ninety Nine quotes by Anonymous
#211. Thirty-three. You?" Salena asked. "Thirty-six. You put us together and you get sixty-nine. #Quote by Anonymous
Ninety Nine quotes by Sid Roth
#212. Life is like an iceberg. Ninety percent is under the water, invisible to the naked eye. The only way to understand the supernatural world is through the Bible. I don't know how I existed without knowing God, or living in His love 24/7, or experiencing His peace no matter what the circumstances, or gaining His wisdom in all of life's choices. I can honestly say I now have no fear of lack, sickness, or even death. #Quote by Sid Roth
Ninety Nine quotes by Amitav Ghosh
#213. Some nine years before, Mr. Tan Chay Yan, scion of a well-known Peranakan Chinese family of Malacca, had converted his pepper garden into a rubber plantation. In 1897 this had seemed like a mad thing to do. Everyone had advised against it: rubber was known to be a risk. Mr. Ridley, the curator of the Singapore Botanical Gardens, had been trying for years to interest British planters in giving rubber a try. The imperial authorities in London had spent a fortune in arranging to have seed stocks stolen from Brazil. #Quote by Amitav Ghosh
Ninety Nine quotes by Patrick Dennis
#214. Morning, I soon discovered, was one o'clock for Auntie Mame. Early Morning was eleven, and the Middle of the Night was nine. #Quote by Patrick Dennis
Ninety Nine quotes by Agatha Christie
#215. Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little Indian boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon; One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.
Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.
Six little Indian boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.
Five little Indian boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four.
Four little Indian boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.
Three little Indian boys walking in the Zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two little Indian boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none. #Quote by Agatha Christie
Ninety Nine quotes by Helene Wecker
#216. They chanted the psalms and praises, and as always the rhythm fastened itself to his heartbeat. It seemed unfair that the prayers could affect him this way, against his will; that he could scoff at the sentiments, yet find himself mouthing along. He imagined himself at ninety, toothless and doddering, unable to remember anything except for the morning prayers. They were his deepest memories, his first music. #Quote by Helene Wecker
Ninety Nine quotes by Chanda Hahn
#217. Mina felt as if she were on cloud nine and three-quarters, #Quote by Chanda Hahn
Ninety Nine quotes by Thomas Hardy
#218. If men only knew the staleness of the freshest of us! that nine times out of ten the "first love" they think they are winning from a woman is but the hulk of an old wrecked affection, fitted with new sails and re-used. #Quote by Thomas Hardy
Ninety Nine quotes by Wallace Stegner
#219. Some people, I am told, have memories like computers, nothing to do but punch the button and wait for the print-out. Mine is more like a Japanese library of the old style, without a card file or an indexing system or any systematic shelf plan. Nobody knows where anything is except the old geezer in felt slippers who has been shuffling up and down those stacks for sixty-nine years. When you hand him a problem he doesn't come back with a cartful and dump it before you, a jackpot of instant retrieval. He finds one thing, which reminds him of another, which leads him off to the annex, which directs him to the east wing, which sends him back two tiers from where he started. Bit by bit he finds you what you want, but like his boss who seems to be under pressure to examine his life, he takes his time. #Quote by Wallace Stegner
Ninety Nine quotes by Sun Tzu
#220. Sun Tzu said: The art of war recognises nine varieties of ground: (1) Dispersive ground; (2) facile ground; (3) contentious ground; (4) open ground; (5) ground of intersecting highways; (6) serious ground; (7) difficult ground; (8) hemmed-in ground; (9) desperate ground. #Quote by Sun Tzu
Ninety Nine quotes by Donald Hall
#221. In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face. #Quote by Donald Hall
Ninety Nine quotes by Dennis Prager
#222. The lack of attention to Moses's sons here and elsewhere in the Torah - essentially nothing is said about them - needs to be explained. And the explanation is probably this: They did not amount to much. This raises the interesting issue of the difficulty many children of great people face in leading successful and satisfying lives. In a book about Moses, 'Overcoming Life's Disappointments', Rabbi Harold Kushner writes about this: Sometimes the father casts so large a shadow that he makes it hard for his children to find the sunshine they need to grow and flourish. Sometimes, the father's achievements are so intimidating that the child just gives up any hope of equaling him. But mostly, I suspect, it takes so much of a man's [the father's] time and energy to be a great man - great in some ways but not in all - that he has too little time left to be a father. As the South African leader Nelson Mandela's daughter was quoted as saying to him, 'You are the father of all our people but you never had time to be a father to me.'
Kushner relates a remarkable story he read in a magazine geared toward clergy, a fictional account of a pastor in a mid-sized church who had a dream one night in which a voice said to him, 'There are fifty teenagers in your church, and you have the ability to lead forty-nine of them to God and lose out on only one.' Energized by the dream, the minister throws all his energy into youth work, organizing special classes and trips for the church's teens. He #Quote by Dennis Prager
Ninety Nine quotes by T.B. Markinson
#223. I was finally tired of hiding behind bravado. My family had hurt me so many times that I had started to lie about my feelings to everyone. To Sarah. To Maddie. To Ethan. And to myself. I was like an iceberg, with ninety percent of my real feelings submerged so no one would know how vulnerable I truly felt. I lied so much, and so often, that even I didn't know my true feelings anymore. #Quote by T.B. Markinson
Ninety Nine quotes by Cassie Steele
#224. I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into. #Quote by Cassie Steele
Ninety Nine quotes by Sarina Bowen
#225. Meanwhile, we blew each other's minds (and other parts) in our new bedroom last night. Then we passed out and slept for nine hours in our brand new king-sized bed. #Quote by Sarina Bowen
Ninety Nine quotes by Mia Wasikowska
#226. I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15. #Quote by Mia Wasikowska
Ninety Nine quotes by Joss Whedon
#227. There's not going to be a 'Buffy' season nine on television. #Quote by Joss Whedon
Ninety Nine quotes by Ilona Andrews
#228. Screw that. We're going to lunch." "It's almost dinnertime." "Then we're going to dinch. Or lunner. Or whatever the hell early-dinner-late-lunch stupid combo we can come up with." "Now isn't . . ." Andrea's eyes blazed. "Kate, I'm nine months pregnant and I'm hungry. Get in the damn car." I got in the Jeep, and Andrea peeled out like a bat out of hell. "We're #Quote by Ilona Andrews
Ninety Nine quotes by Kether Donohue
#229. I've been auditioning since I'm nine years old. Honestly, most of my friends I've met in audition rooms because you're always auditioning. #Quote by Kether Donohue
Ninety Nine quotes by Julie Kagawa
#230. Even if I turned ninety, lost my mind and forgot everytging else, the memory of the Winter prince would be a shining beacon that would never fade #Quote by Julie Kagawa
Ninety Nine quotes by H.L. Mencken
#231. Two avenues of approach to these rewards lie open to the ambitious fictioneer. On the one hand, he may throw all intelligible standards of merit to the winds, and devote himself to manufacturing new stories that are frankly bad, trusting to the fact that nine persons out of ten are utterly devoid of esthetic sense and hence unable to tell the bad from the good. And on the other hand, he may take stories, or parts of stories that have been told before, or that, in themselves, are scarcely worth the telling, and so encrust them with the ornaments of wit, of shrewd observation, of human sympathy and of style
in brief, so develop them
that readers of good taste will forget the unsoundness of the material in admiration of the ingenious and workmanlike way in which it is handled. #Quote by H.L. Mencken
Ninety Nine quotes by Sherman Alexie
#232. boys can hold hands until they turn nine #Quote by Sherman Alexie
Ninety Nine quotes by Francis Ford Coppola
#233. Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine. #Quote by Francis Ford Coppola
Ninety Nine quotes by Eve Myles
#234. A 'Torchwood' movie would be incredible. It would be sensational to have a beginning, a middle and an end in ninety minutes. A big walloping 'Torchwood' crunched into ninety minutes would be breathtaking. #Quote by Eve Myles
Ninety Nine quotes by Eugene Cernan
#235. Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home. #Quote by Eugene Cernan
Ninety Nine quotes by Ankala Subbarao
#236. A stitch in time saves nine......if the patient goes to the doctor early... #Quote by Ankala Subbarao
Ninety Nine quotes by Sam Carrington
#237. CHAPTER NINETY DI Wade 'How are #Quote by Sam Carrington
Ninety Nine quotes by Wendy Kopp
#238. I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities. #Quote by Wendy Kopp
Ninety Nine quotes by Horace Greeley
#239. Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder. #Quote by Horace Greeley
Ninety Nine quotes by Robert Kennedy
#240. My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children. #Quote by Robert Kennedy
Ninety Nine quotes by Franklin P. Adams
#241. Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to. #Quote by Franklin P. Adams
Ninety Nine quotes by Pittacus Lore
#242. Next he grabs a round yellow thing covered in small bumps. It looks like a strange fruit and I half expect him to squeeze it to produce juice. When it reaches shoulder height the small bumps explode, turning into razor-sharp spikes. I duck and roll in BK's direction to avoid getting impaled.
"What the hell?" I shout. "You could have warned me! This is the second time in less than five minutes that you've almost killed me. #Quote by Pittacus Lore
Ninety Nine quotes by Joshua Ferris
#243. We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves. #Quote by Joshua Ferris
Ninety Nine quotes by Dikembe Mutombo
#244. I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the NBA. Today we've got more than 85, so that tells you how our game has grown at that level. #Quote by Dikembe Mutombo
Ninety Nine quotes by Liam Hemsworth
#245. Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades. #Quote by Liam Hemsworth
Ninety Nine quotes by Lauren Kate
#246. Look," Steven said, pointing at the sky.
The stars were out in droves. One, far in the distance, was particularly bright. It flickered, then seemed to go out altogether before returning even brighter than before.
"That's them, isn't it?" she said. "The Fall?"
"Yes," Francesca said. "That's it. It looks just like the old texts say it would."
"It was just"-Luce furrowed her brow, squinting-"I can only see it when I-"
"Concentrate," Cam ordered.
"What's happening to it?" Luce asked.
"It is coming into being in this world," Daniel said. "It wasn't the physical transit from Heaven to Earth that took nine days. It was the shift from a Heavenly realm to an Earthly one. When we landed here, our bodies were...different. We became different. That took time."
"Now time is taking us," Roland said, looking at the golden pocket watch that Dee must have given him before she died.
"Then it is time for us to go," Daniel said to Luce.
"Up there?"
"Yes, we must soar up to meet them. We will fly right up to the limits of the Fall, and then you-"
"I have to stop him?"
"Yes."
She closed her eyes thought back to the way Lucifer had looked at her in the Meadow. He looked like he wanted to crush every speck of tenderness there was. "I think I know how."
"I told you she would say that!" Arriane whooped.
Daniel pulled her close. "Are you sure?"
She kissed him, never surer. "I just got my wings back, Daniel. I'm not goi #Quote by Lauren Kate
Ninety Nine quotes by Annalisa Crawford
#247. When I was little – eight or nine – I used to scare myself by looking up at the stars. You can see hundreds, thousands. The more I looked, the more I could see. Have you ever done it?"
Josie shakes her head.
"On really clear nights you can see the Milky Way… and the world suddenly seems so small. And I thought, if the world is that small then I must be just a speck, smaller than a speck, totally insignificant in a universe I couldn't even begin to understand. So I chose to believe that I do matter, that everyone matters." The waitress leans back in the chair and laughs at herself. "And, yes, I do realise it makes absolutely no sense at all, before you say anything."

From the story 'Omelette #Quote by Annalisa Crawford
Ninety Nine quotes by Meg Jay
#248. Did not want to "just have some office job and work nine to five like everyone else." Ian was on a sneaky search for glory. He suffered less from the tyranny of the should than he did from the tyranny of the should-not. His #Quote by Meg Jay

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