Percent Quotes - page 3

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time. (Paulo Coelho)
But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera. View quote
Franz von Papen
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. View quote
Colin Powell
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. View quote
Lou Holtz
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. View quote
Norman Borlaug
We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure? View quote
Curtis LeMay
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy. View quote
John Derbyshire
People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career. View quote
Helena Bonham Carter
Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law. View quote
Margaret Mead
In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late. (Joseph Stiglitz)
I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God. View quote
Josh McDowell
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy. View quote
Ted Turner
The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking. View quote
Alan Greenspan
Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better. View quote
Cecil Rhodes
What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted. View quote
Olusegun Obasanjo
Ninety percent of them [artists in general] are forgotten ten minutes after they're dead. View quote
Edward Hopper
I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about. View quote
Christian Slater
I care what 51 percent of the people think about me. View quote
George W. Bush
I'm asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages. View quote
George W. Bush
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. (Gloria Swanson)
99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses. View quote
George Washington
That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true. View quote
Yanni
You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hand to his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming. View quote
Sandra Bernhard