Top 98 Statistic Quotes
#1. I recently read that 99% of dieters fail to maintain their weight loss and, given my past experience, that statistic feels true to me!
Celso Cukierkorn
#2. Tom was deep in MEGO by then. My Eyes Glaze Over. Normally, he was fascinated by matters statistic, but look up "fascination" someday.
Michael Flynn
#3. If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.
Apolo Ohno
#4. A life saved is a statistic; a person hurt is an anecdote. Statistics are invisible; anecdotes are salient.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#5. We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.
Jane Fonda
#6. Nobody evers seems to realize that a statistic is just a coincidence that has had a lot of experience.
S.L. Varnado
#7. This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
Sally Quinn
#8. A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
Margot Adler
#9. If there are many choices of 3.4 billion women/men in this world (2010 statistic: 65% from overall population or 2,2 billion are 15-64 years old women/men) , why should be narrowed with only view to the same beliefs ?
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#10. I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.
Venus Williams
#11. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.
Chuck Palahniuk
#12. And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.
Peter Garrett
#13. When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.
Blake McIver Ewing
#14. The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.
Dean Smith
#15. I would like to think I will be a guy who knows when it's time to stop. I don't want to be a guy who hung on and hung on. I do not have a goal in mind of a year or a statistic.
Peyton Manning
#16. The most important statistic, the one that told the story with the most unbiased clarity, was that the current death rate from cancer was still the same as it was in 1950.
Travis Christofferson
#17. Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
Aaron Sorkin
#18. Many a statistic is false on its face. It gets by only because the magic of numbers bring about a suspension of common sense
Darrell Huff
#19. The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane - or put your children on a plane - if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks.
Rush Limbaugh
#20. Every human being wants to be seen, really seen, by another human being, not as a statistic in some sociological study, not as a casualty of poverty, not as a victim of a corrupt social structure. We can start by seeing both what is and what can be.
Nancy Rue
#21. The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220)
Steven Pinker
#22. I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.
Douglas Coupland
#23. I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
Billy Joel
#24. Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic
Robert Kennedy
#25. I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
Tamra Davis
#26. Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won't stop working until that statistic is reversed - until over 90% of people go home and can honestly say, 'I love what I do.'
Simon Sinek
#27. The only important statistic is the final score.
Bill Russell
#28. The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
#29. If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
George A. Romero
#30. There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.
Dan Brown
#31. The guns-for-everyone advocates hate that statistic, and dispute it, but as Bill Clinton likes to say, it's not opinion. It's arithmetic, honey.
Stephen King
#32. An oft-quoted statistic from the [United Nations] reports is that the amount of literature translated into Spanish in a single year exceeds the entire corpus of what has been translated into Arabic in 1,000 years.
The Economist
#33. It is not fashionable to quote Stalin but he said once, half a million liquidated is a statistic, and one man killed in a traffic accident is a national tragedy.
John Le Carre
#34. Whatever I did, even backed by Sting's cash and moral support, it turned to shit. I had reached the end of the line. I became a statistic. Jim Berryman, actor, comedian, bookie and lounge-lizard, was on the dole!
James Berryman
#35. One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.
Barbara Demick
#36. One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic
Kurt Tucholsky
#37. Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.
S.A. Tawks
#38. The intelligence community agrees 30 percent of the terrorists released from Guantanamo are known or suspected to have already re-joined the fight against Americans_- a statistic that translates to a horrific reality.
Mark Kirk
#39. Statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports
that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared
leaving no solid clues
nor traceonly
a space
in the lives of their friends.
Ishmael Reed
#40. As far as the Wagners were concerned, Kaye would just disappear. Within a month she would become another statistic, one of thousands of teenagers who walk out on their families every year.
Whitley Strieber
#41. This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.
Rush Limbaugh
#42. I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.
Martin Klebba
#43. At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years - or until the year 2330 - to deploy SBInet technology across the Southwest border. That statistic would be comical if the subject matter were not so serious.
Henry Cuellar
#44. Because there are 176 definitions for the word loser.
Don't Be a Statistic.
Kimberly McCreight
#45. Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set
Spot in the middle
Static fade, statistic bit
And soon I fade away, fade away
Dave Matthews
#46. I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.
Jack Nicholson
#47. YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.
Jason Calacanis
#48. People get killed every ten or 20 minutes. When we die, we are just another statistic.
Snoop Dogg
#49. The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.
William Eckhardt
#50. A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.
Darrell Huff
#51. It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.
Jeremy Corbyn
#52. She calmly raised the stun gun to her lips as if blowing away imaginary smoke. With a wry smile, she acknowledged the group of women gathered in her living room to witness her in-home presentation. "And that, ladies, is how you keep from becoming a statistic.
Stu Summers
#53. Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.
Rick Perlstein
#54. I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
Young Jeezy
#55. The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic
Joseph Stalin
#56. Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
Ernie Harwell
#57. The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.
Marilyn Manson
#58. There is a type of warfare in which the entire pattern is made up of a collection of lesser actions, but these lesser or individual actions are not sequentially interdependent. Each individual one is no more than a single statistic, an isolated plus or minus, in arriving at the final result.
J.C. Wylie
#59. But no statistic conveyed a true picture of Panama rain. It had to be seen, to be felt, smelled; it had to be heard to be appreciated. The effect was much as though the heavens had opened and the air had turned instantly liquid.
David McCullough
#60. Last year, the USDA said for the first time in 150 years that there were more farms in America instead of fewer. I think that's the single most hopeful statistic I know.
Bill McKibben
#61. But there is another statistic, much harder to measure, that I think is even more important and revealing: Does your society have more memories than dreams or more dreams than memories?
Thomas L. Friedman
#62. And as we meet needs on earth, we are proclaiming a gospel that transforms lives for eternity. The point is not simply to meet a temporary need or change a startling statistic; the point is to exalt the glory of Christ as we express the gospel of Christ through the radical generosity of our lives.
David Platt
#63. If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.
Paul Watson
#64. We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital.
Russ Carnahan
#65. And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.
Mary Stuart Masterson
#66. I think you've been sleeping on the job; the city isn't exactly paradise," she said caustically. "Every time you clap your hands, another person becoms a statistic.
Carol Oates
#67. The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.
Barry Commoner
#68. Single death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
Rick Yancey
#69. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.
Alan Moore
#70. Remember, if confronted by a librarian while looking for a book to check out, do not attempt to escape by climbing a tree. There are no trees in the library and the precious moments it will take you to look around and realize this will allow the librarian to strike. Don't become a statistic.
Joseph Fink
#71. One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.
Nicholas Kristof
#72. In my quest to become unique, I've become a statistic.
Sting
#73. America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of ...
Henry Rollins
#74. Sociologists tell us that even the most introverted individual will influence ten thousand other people during his or her lifetime! This amazing statistic was shared with me by my associate Tim Elmore.
John C. Maxwell
#75. 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
#76. Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.
John F. Kennedy
#77. I read a recent statistic that eighty-seven percent of women are dissatisfied with themselves, and over forty-seven percent of men. My work is visu-medicine to heal people and see beauty within people.
Jamel Shabazz
#78. To put that statistic into personal terms, make a list of the nineteen people closest to you: All but one will die. (This
Douglas Preston
#79. One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." Statistics stay silent in us.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#80. First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.
Jon Lovitz
#81. The only meaningful statistic is number of games won.
Woody Hayes
#82. It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.
Sophia Bush
#83. She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.
Ellen Goodman
#84. The only meaningful statistic in warfare is when the other side quits.
Karl Marlantes
#86. The last thing I need is for daughter to move back into my basement and become another unemployed millennial statistic. Would love for her to get a job at Facebook. Become the president of Google.
Kate Siegel
#87. When you cure a blind person, he or she is not a statistic.
Geoff Tabin
#88. I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'
Serena Williams
#89. The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us.
Bryan Stevenson
#90. Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.
Ken Salazar
#91. A lot of the people who have been on 'American Idol' have unfortunately not been very successful after the show is over. I would be one of the most successful contestants to not make it to the Top 12. So that would be a good statistic to throw into the show. It's what you make of it.
Todrick Hall
#92. I make such a good statistic, somebody should study me now; somebody's gotta be interested in how I feel, just cause I'm here, and I'm real.
Ani DiFranco
#93. One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
#94. Only 42 percent of Republicans believe Obama was born in the United States. That's an amazing statistic. How come in America Christians are the only ones who won't take anything on faith?
Bill Maher
#95. There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times.
Michael Bloomberg
#96. When one person dies, it's a tragedy, but when a million people die, it's a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
#97. If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.
Gloria Steinem
#98. Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs
Nancy Pelosi
