Nine Quotes - Page 7

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

"Do you not quarrel, brother Heber?" says one. No, I do not. But; when a woman begins to dispute me, about nine times out of ten I get up and say, "Go it," and then go off about my business; and if ever I am so foolish as to quarrel with a woman, I ought to be whipped; for you may always calculate that they will have the last word.

It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she knows to be true, the feminine impulses and gifts of her psyche continue to be killed off.

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

You and I, we'll be together 'til the six is nine.

What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in Guatemala, and that those nine babies are headed this way. This is one reason why Americans hold on so dearly to the myth of the dead Indian.

How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

The nine of us being together is more important than anything else.

Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine.

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

I'm leaning towards making something for kids nine and under because I have kids now. I can clean it up and make it rated G.

There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about.