Average Quotes - page 4

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different. (Zora Neale Hurston)
Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals. View quote
Grace Slick
In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85. View quote
Robert Fogel
Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it. View quote
Paolo Bacigalupi
I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger. View quote
Ronald Firbank
Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. View quote
Dean Koontz
In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices. View quote
Benjamin Graham
I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man's average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time, while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next. (Clifford D. Simak)
The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today. View quote
Fred Thompson
Be grateful you're not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn't a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating plants But your pants are safe, you're a fortunate guy You ought to be shouting how lucky am I. View quote
Dr. Seuss
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. View quote
W. Edwards Deming
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country. View quote
Saki
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. View quote
Arthur Helps
There is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are close to the seat of modern governmental power. The state is no longer founded on the 'average citizen', but on the ability and knowledge of this elite. The average man is altogether unable to penetrate technical secrets or governmental organization and consequently can exert no influence at all on the state. View quote
Jacques Ellul
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. View quote
Ibrahim Babangida
Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess. View quote
George Orwell
Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
To me personally, the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher. View quote
Lin Yutang
The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter. View quote
F. Lee Bailey
Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise! View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty and intelligence. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt