Quotes About Average

#1. It is now possible to live a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn't have to do it.

Cal Thomas

#2. By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.

Steve Rushin

#3. There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

Walter Lippmann

#4. Carelessness is a weakness that isn't tolerated in this order, he says in a voice that the average housewife would have to take out of the freezer at two in the afternoon if she wanted it thawed in time for supper.

Tom Robbins

#5. I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.

Veronica Webb

#6. You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

Paul Feig

#7. We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

Marian Wright Edelman

#8. I'm a little different from the average dude because I'm on high-def TV now.

Ray Romano

#9. I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early spring. I particularly like to go out when there is a below-average ebb tide because that exposes clamming grounds and oysters that are usually under water.

Jim Himes

#10. In daytime, you're shooting an episode a day, which is on average about 90 pages of script a day. That is very hectic. On '90210,' you get to work through it a little more. You're not just flying through it just to get it done.

Trevor Donovan

#11. I spent my whole life as a writer talking to just the average guy in Los Angeles and Latin America, talking to working people.

Hector Tobar

#12. The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook. And this is just as true for 'public personalities' as it is for the average person. After all, even people in the public eye have a right to a private life.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#13. The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man.

Michel Houellebecq

#14. Spirit. Approach life with genuine zeal, with vigor and energy. Walk a little faster than average. Read a little more. Try a little harder. Be enthusiastic, even about your thoughts. Give everything you do your every best effort.

Joni Hilton

#15. Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#17. But one week later, when the researchers measured typing speeds again, they found that the workers, on average, were completing 103 lines per hour. Another week later: 112 lines. Most of the typists had blown past the goals they had set.

Charles Duhigg

#18. People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

Art Alexakis

#19. Don't tell me Kinshasa, the poorest city in the poorest country in the world, a place where the average per capita income is one goat bell, two bootleg Michael Jackson cassette tapes, and three sips of potable water per year, thinks we're too poor to associate with.

Paul Beatty

#20. How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

Naomi Wolf

#21. The black dress of the average witch was usually only theoretically black. In reality, it was often rather dusty, and quite possibly patched in the vicinity of the knees and somewhat ragged at the hem and, of course, very nearly worn through by frequent washings. It was what it was: working clothes.

Terry Pratchett

#22. Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

Peter Buck

#23. The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.

Frankie Boyle

#24. I observed the way Dee and Deron played at the Nike Camp [in Indianapolis]. They share the ball well; I mean, they average about 13 points apiece and they could both score 20
they do what they have to do to help the team.

Nate Robinson

#25. It takes the average human seven minutes to go to sleep, but according to Hand's Human Physiology, it takes the same average human fifteen to twenty minutes to wake up.

Stephen King

#26. The United States has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world - an average of 89 per 100 people,

Chris Hedges

#27. We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

Gore Vidal

#28. I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.

Ben Bernanke

#29. Taking a statement from anyone can be a long process on account of the fact that your average member of the public wouldn't know the truth if it donned a pink tutu and danced in front of them singing the Chicken Song. This

Ben Aaronovitch

#30. For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

Russell Banks

#31. As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.

Curt Schilling

#32. As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year.

Norman Lamm

#33. When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.

Tony Abbott

#34. Many counties in Maryland are above the average unemployment rate for both Maryland and the United States. We need representation in Congress who will make creating jobs the No. 1 priority so the people of Maryland can get back to work.

Andrew P. Harris

#35. The average British woman is a size 12 to 14, but in modelling, a size 12 is considered huge, which is ridiculous.

Marie Helvin

#36. In the long run, the best way to reduce inequalities with respect to labor as well as to increase the average productivity of the labor force and the overall growth of the economy is surely to invest in education.

Thomas Piketty

#37. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston S. Churchill

#38. If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.

Lorii Myers

#39. Some would say a whore don't have no expectation of Heaven. I'd say, if she gives value for cash, she's got a better shot at God's blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender.

Elizabeth Bear

#40. There is almost nothing more common than the belief that one is above average in intelligence, wisdom, honesty, etc.

Sam Harris

#41. The average plan administrator charges 1.3% to 1.5% annually (according to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office). That's $1,300 for every $100,000 just to participate in the 401(k). So when you add this 1.3% for the plan administration to the total mutual fund costs of 3.17%, it

Anthony Robbins

#42. Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Joel Osteen

#43. I have this prominent feature on my face - I don't know if you've noticed - but, well, they're my lips. They tend to walk into a room before I do because they're larger than average! So Chapstick's a big one for me.

Chloe Bridges

#44. Up off your knees now and shatter the average.

Buck 65

#45. Our modern conception of the average person is not a mathematical truth but a human invention, created a century and a half ago by two European scientists to solve the social problems of their era.

Todd Rose

#46. Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common,

Robin Givhan

#47. More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized PowerStation is presently able to produce.

Viktor Schauberger

#48. I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art.

Rita Ora

#49. the "attackers" - forming such a slick, seductive narrative that the average citizen - the "victim" - was almost an afterthought. "Bystander A" was glimpsed only in passing.

No One

#50. Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

Terry Pratchett

#51. Walmart isn't your average mom-and-pop operation. It's the largest employer in America. As such, it's the trendsetter for millions of other employers of low-wage workers.

Robert Reich

#52. Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

Bob Beauprez

#53. 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.

Lin Yutang

#54. I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.

Barbara Corcoran

#55. If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.

Fred DeLuca

#56. In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures.

John C. Calhoun

#57. Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

Dick Morris

#58. When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao

Lao-Tzu

#59. On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's fault.

Jakob Nielsen

#60. There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long. Whenever there is asymmetry in outcomes, the average survival has nothing to do with the median survival.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#61. The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

Norman Vincent Peale

#62. He had a penis one inch in diameter and seven and a half inches long. During the past year, he had averaged twenty-two orgasms per month. This was far above the national average. His income and the value of his life insurance policies at maturity were also far above average.

Kurt Vonnegut

#63. Other countries spend, on average, only about one-half of what the U.S. spends per capita on health care. Isn't it reasonable, therefore, for us to expect our system to rank above theirs? Unfortunately, among these twelve countries, the U.S. system is consistently among the worst performers.

T. Colin Campbell

#64. Here is a golden Rule ... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

Lewis Carroll

#65. It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.

Pico Iyer

#66. Our society had been a kleptocracy of the highest order, the government doing its best to steal from the Americans, the average man doing his best to steal from the government, the worst of us doing our best to steal from each other.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#67. The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#68. I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.

Corin Nemec

#69. One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events which are individually capricious and unpredictable can, when treated en masse, lead to very stable average performances.

Warren Weaver

#70. It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In terms of coherence, it makes your average David Lynch movie look like 'Burn Notice.'

Rob Sheffield

#71. For a long time, Conor had known his father and Liam followed a stricter-than-average code, that their hate shone a little brighter than most, but until today, he'd never seen so clearly what fools they were and how blinded they'd become in their intolerance.

Katherine McIntyre

#72. The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.

Beth Broderick

#73. If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.

D. Elton Trueblood

#74. Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

Pat Riley

#75. If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Quentin Crisp

#76. If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.

Dwight L. Moody

#77. Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

George Thorogood

#78. Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.

Jose Serrano

#79. POPPY (on her mother not breastfeeding her during infancy): If you had breastfed me, it might have increased my IQ, and I'd have a lot of pressure to succeed. My average IQ means I can simply coast through life, so thank you.

Bijou Hunter

#80. Though the single atoms change their orientation incessantly, they produce on the average (owing to their enormous number) a constant small preponderance of orientation in the direction of the field and proportional to it.

Erwin Schrodinger

#81. In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

Eric S. Raymond

#82. I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

Justin Bieber

#83. Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.

John Hull

#84. Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Kin Hubbard

#85. When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

George Carlin

#86. The rules have changed so much from our days and the Heatu2019s days. It was more physical back then. Today you can run around without getting touched. Today, Michael Jordan would average about 45 points.

Horace Grant

#87. I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Alan Greenspan

#88. I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.

Eminem

#89. People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.

Todd Rundgren

#90. I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.

Madonna Ciccone

#91. To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles.

Paul J. H. Schoemaker

#92. Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye.

Vladimir Nabokov

#93. It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'

David Harsanyi

#94. The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

A.E. Housman

#95. Ask the average person his views on snakes and he will, within the space of ten minutes, talk more nonsense than a brace of politicians.

Gerald Durrell

#96. Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party.

Chuck Schumer

#97. If the work of the average man required half the mental agility and readiness of resource of the work of the average prostitute, the average man would be constantly on the verge of starvation.

H.L. Mencken

#98. The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job.

Bryant McGill

#99. People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.

Felix Baumgartner

#100. Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

Harvey Fierstein