Top Ninety Nine Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Ninety Nine quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Booth Tarkington
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.
- Booth Tarkington
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Image of Kaye Gibbons
You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.
- Kaye Gibbons
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Image of Harold Geneen
Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.
- Harold Geneen
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Image of Anna Brownell Jameson
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.
- Anna Brownell Jameson
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Image of Fernando Sabino
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.
- Fernando Sabino
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Image of William Torrey Harris
Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.
- William Torrey Harris
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Image of Betty Comden
Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
- Betty Comden
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Image of Tom Holt
At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance
- Tom Holt
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Image of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.
- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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Image of Kalki Krishnamurthy
Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.
- Kalki Krishnamurthy
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Image of E. J. Gold
Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.
- E. J. Gold
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Image of Rajneesh
Love can have the quality of the devil - that`s how it is there in the world, ninety-nine percent. Love can have the quality of God, and unless you make your love divine, it is not going to give you any contentment.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Francesca Lia Block
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?
- Francesca Lia Block
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Image of Henri Frederic Amiel
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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Image of Albert Einstein
Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.
- Albert Einstein
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Image of Neil Gaiman
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.
- Neil Gaiman
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
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.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Arianna Huffington
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.
- Arianna Huffington
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Image of Matthew McConaughey
Some things, you just like what you like and you stick to it. Other things, you like what you like, but the things that come with celebrity or success comes more options. There's was nine, all of the sudden there's ninety-nine things to say "yes" to, which you didn't have the option to say "yes" to yesterday.
- Matthew McConaughey
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Image of Daphne du Maurier
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.
- Daphne du Maurier
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