85th Percentile Quotes

#1. It's fun to play around ... it's human nature to try to select the right horse ... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer ... The predictability is so high ... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?

Charles R. Schwab

#2. And that was when I realised I wasn't the strongest man in the world after all. I was the weakest.

Charlotte McConaghy

#3. It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.

William Hague

#4. We can trace the operation of evil in the physical world ... but I am more and more puzzled about it in the moral world. There its course is often so very obscure; and often it seems to involve, so far as we can see, no penalty whatsoever.

William Dean Howells

#5. I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

Freddy Adu

#6. I hear the cock woke you up."
Eve choked on her coffee. "What?"
"Not that kind of cock." Sinead sent a sparkling look over her shoulder. "Though if that's true as well, good for you. I meant the rooster.

J.D. Robb

#7. But the heart of a woman is such that, however arid it may become when the winds of prejudice and the demands of etiquette have blown across it, there always remains one corner that is radiant and fertile
-the one that God has dedicated to maternal love.

Alexandre Dumas

#8. SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. We're not memories, Katherine, we're dreams. All of us. Each part of us a dream, a nightmare of blood and vomit and boredom and fear. And when we wake up - we die." When

Mark Lawrence

#10. So this is how it ends, she thought, when the call was over, and she was soothed by the banality of it.

Emily St. John Mandel

#11. A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.

Alfred Capus