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1 " It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need. "
― Tyler Perry
2 " Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us. "
― W.H. Auden
3 " Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them. "
― Ray Bradbury , A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
4 " Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will be added in the next fifty years. Add together the dusty LOC volumes with the shiny new and forthcoming books, and you get a bookshelf-warping total of twenty-eight million books available for an English reader in the next fifty years! But you can read only 2,600 - because you are a wildly ambitious book devourer. ... For every one book that you choose to read, you must ignore ten thousand other books simply because you don't have the time (or money!). "
― Tony Reinke , Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books
5 " Colonel Cathcart is our commanding officer and we must obey him. Why don't you fly four more missions and see what happens?" " I don't want to." " Suppose we let you pick your missions and fly milk runs?" Major Major said. " That way you can fly the four missions and not run any risks." " I don't want to fly milk runs. I don't want to be in the war anymore." " Would you like to see our country lose?" Major Major asked." We won't lose. We've got more men, more money, and more material. There are ten million men in uniform who could replace me. Some people are getting killed and a lot more are making money and having fun. Let somebody else get killed." " But suppose everybody on our side felt that way?" " Then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way. Wouldn't I? "
6 " No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities. "
― Ry Cooder , Los Angeles Stories
7 " When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. He was also a very kind man who had a lot of love to give the world, and he helped clean up the slum in our town; and he made toys for us and he did a million things in his lifetime; he was always busy with his hands. And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for all the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he did. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them just the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. I've never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands. He shaped the world. He DID things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on. "
― Ray Bradbury
8 " The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound to be low, because there were so many people at the time who had a vested interest in smuggling slaves (and withholding data. Nevertheless, if the low figure of ten million was accepted as basis for evaluating the impact of slaving on Africa as a whole, the conclusions that could legitimately be drawn would confound those who attempt to make light of the experience of the rape of Africans from 1445 to 1870. Pg. 96 "
9 " What an optimistic animal man is!" said Rumfoord rosily. " Imagine expecting the species to last for ten million more years - as though people were as well-developed as turtles!" He shrugged. " Well - who knows - maybe human beings will last that long, just on the basis of pure cussedness. What's your guess? "
10 " Not only is democracy mystical nonsense, it is also immoral. If one man has no right to impose his wishes on another, then ten million men have no right to impose their wishes on the one, since the initiation of force is wrong (and the assent of even the most overwhelming majority can never make it morally permissible). Opinions—even majority opinions—neither create truth nor alter facts. A lynch mob is democracy in action. So much for mob rule. "
― , The Market for Liberty
11 " [It] is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life. "
― G.H. Hardy , A Mathematician's Apology
12 " I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn— that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you’re a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale. (Introduction to Ender's Game) "
― Orson Scott Card , Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
13 " That night's show was watched by ten million people, so I guess that director at The Second City who said the audience " didn't want to see a sketch with two women" can go shit in his hat. "
14 " Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming passion which one human voice can carry -- that was Adolf Hitler's technique. No matter whether it was true or not -- for (Hitler) meant literally his maxim that the bigger the falsehood, the easier to get it believed; people would say you wouldn't dare make up a thing like that. Imagine the worst possible about your enemies and then swear that you knew it, you had seed it, it was God's truth and you were ready to stake your life upon it -- shout this, bellow this, over and over, day after day, night after night...when ten million join in it becomes history. "
― Upton Sinclair , Dragon's Teeth I
