If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.
You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.
. . . [T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.
Systematic yoga and vipassana opens the "Dasham Duar" the mystical tenth spiritual gateway located at the top of the skull.
The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're doing a certain line for the tenth time because everything ceases to be funny after it's been repeated.
You don't lose your swing between the ninth green and the tenth tee, and you don't lose your swing from one day to the next. If you think you do, something is going on that you don't understand. A diary might help explain it to you.
If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.
Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.
[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing. . . . From Natures Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. . . . All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.
If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.
Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.
The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.
I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!
I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth draft, then that can just be part of how I've assembled the character, and then we can move on and move forward with it. In general, I don't ever want to feel smarter than my characters, because I just feel like that's not a great way to write a story.
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys, There is but one a bad one; The tenth is he, the parson's fee, And indeed he is a sad one. No love of fame, no sense of shame, And a bad heart, let me tell ye: Without, all brass; within, all ass, And the puppy's name is Felly.
Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
