Percent Quotes - page 2

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace. (Henepola Gunaratana)
Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent. View quote
Cecil B. DeMille
I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot. View quote
Felix Baumgartner
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. View quote
Ferran Adria
Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you. View quote
Frank Luntz
I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man? View quote
Charles Cumming
All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain. View quote
William Vickrey
I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty. View quote
O. J. Simpson
The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice. View quote
Daryl Hannah
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education. (Ed Markey)
Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042. View quote
Grace Napolitano
An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million. View quote
Gary Miller
In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades. View quote
Gary Miller
There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world. View quote
Michael K. Simpson
I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs. View quote
Omar Epps
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. View quote
Patrick J. Kennedy
More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy. View quote
Randy Neugebauer
Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual. View quote
Sue Kelly
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle. View quote
Vincent D'Onofrio
According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months. (Xavier Becerra)
The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent. View quote
Charlie Sheen
It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent. View quote
Steve Buscemi
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation. View quote
Michael Pollan
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history. View quote
Chris Hedges