Ninety Quotes

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. View quote
Lily Tomlin
Ninety percent of everything is crap. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
Ninety percent of this game is half mental. View quote
Yogi Berra
Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principal task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view. View quote
Kurt Gödel
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. View quote
Henry Kissinger
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. View quote
Lou Holtz
For almost ninety years I've walked among my kind, and yours ... all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren't alive yet. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs. View quote
Lewis Black
When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety. (Steven Wright)
Ninety percent of them [artists in general] are forgotten ten minutes after they're dead. View quote
Edward Hopper
You are getting too old for this." "A man is as old as he feels, woman!" "And how old do you feel?" "About ninety. View quote
David Gemmell
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
You can not bring back the past. But you certainly can not repeat it. Life is short, even if live to ninety. Live to the fullest - that's how I feel. Appreciate every moment, every hour, every day, because they do not blink of an eye, all over. I am absolutely sure that for most people their death comes as a surprise. View quote
Bruce Willis
Ninety percent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in.... Ruskin's Elements. View quote
Claude Monet
Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical. View quote
Yogi Berra
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
The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. (Peter Drucker)
Hmmm, I bet you'd be really cute with hornays. Not that you're not cute right now, but you're a bit young. You're only what? Four in human years? Oh wait, that's wrong, isn't it? You ninety? (Simi) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ninety percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.' – Cherise. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. View quote
Arthur Bloch
There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first. View quote
Bill Shoemaker