Great Percentage Quotes

#1. When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Ben Shahn

#2. We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.

Walter Cronkite

#3. A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in
my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.

Raul Hilberg

#4. I would say for a great percentage of people, all they do is repeat their past. They really don't have a future at all.

William S. Burroughs

#5. The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

Rue McClanahan

#6. There is a way; you have to find it.

Debasish Mridha

#7. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

Susan Sontag

#8. The vase was a solid, dark green stone carved into plain surfaces; the texture of its smooth curves provoked an irresistible desire to touch it. It seemed startling in that office, incongruous with the sternness of the rest: it was a touch of sensuality.

Ayn Rand

#9. Dad at breakfast today being very quiet. I notice he is clean shaven. I said to him, 'Vati, what has happened to the little beaver that used to live on the end of your chin?

Louise Rennison

#10. My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

Henrietta Szold

#11. When I left Google to join Facebook, as a percentage of my team, fewer women tried to follow me. As they had been all along, the men were more interested in new and, as we say in tech, higher beta opportunities - where the risks were great but the potential rewards even greater.

Sheryl Sandberg

#12. If a guardian angel had told me this would happen. If they'd come to me the night before you stole me and explained the atrocities I would live through, I would still have come with you." - Nila

Pepper Winters

#13. On-base percentage is great if you can score runs and do something with that on-base percentage. Clogging up the bases isn't that great to me. The problem we have to address more than anything is the home run problem.

Dusty Baker

#14. Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up against a tide of sentiment and emotionalism over reason that threatens to engulf this world. When you think about it, a rationalist, a man of science and reason, is in a pretty lonely position.

Hugh Laurie

#15. Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.

Maureen Dowd

#16. I'm a conservative first, and I believe that, if we do a better job of helping Americans understand what we're trying to do, to showcase every place in the country that our ideas are working at the state level, that that will help those at the federal level who want to carry those policies.

Jim DeMint

#17. Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Calvin Trillin

#18. We never hid anything from the kids. I feel whole again, I really do. I've told them, 'Mommy's boo-boo is much better now.'

Wanda Sykes

#19. Or maybe you're merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

Jerry Spinelli

#20. I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I think the U.S. is a much more secular country than Britain.

Stanley Hauerwas

#21. Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.

Gail Collins

#22. No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Abraham Lincoln

#23. In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

John Lewis