Cent Quotes - page 2

Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse – both boys and girls – but we still feel uncomfortable talking about it. We are still hypocrites when it comes to issues like child abuse, sex or for that matter homosexuality. It is high time that we brought the issue from under the carpet. (Rahul Bose)
The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people. View quote
David Harvey
The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger. View quote
Tony Abbott
In the 1970s and a lot of the 1980s, we would have thanked our lucky stars in the coalfield areas for growth of 1.75 per cent. The only thing growing then were the lines of coke in front of boy George and the rest of them. View quote
Dennis Skinner
You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future. View quote
John Steinbeck
Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Virtually, Finnish woods are stripped so bare, so sold out and first and foremost, so long way off from genuine diverse natural forest, that the resources of language will not permit excessive words. Finnish forest economy has been compared to the ravaging of rain forests. Nevertheless, the noteworthy difference is that there is a half or two thirds left from rain forests, but from Finnish forests there is left - excluding arctic Lapland - 0,6 per cent. View quote
Pentti Linkola
100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal. View quote
Timothée Chalamet
It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass that is known to exist but that at present remains invisible to our senses and instruments. View quote
Graham Hancock
If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.' (Nancy Greene)
Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me. View quote
Arjun Rampal
Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country. View quote
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. View quote
Alexander John Ellis
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult. View quote
Al Stewart
I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home. View quote
Colm Meaney
When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that. View quote
David Coverdale
In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay. View quote
David Tang
I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent. View quote
Don Hewitt
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup. (Glenn Hoddle)
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers. View quote
Garry Disher
Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen. View quote
Gary Vaynerchuk
I used up every cent I earned as an actress. View quote
Gene Tierney
I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper. View quote
Jerry Buss