One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over… — Dudley Moore Copy Share Image
I DECLARE I am special and extraordinary. I am not average! I have been custom-made. I am one of a kind. Of… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable? — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
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It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
With average or even minimum ability, success is still very possible. — Jacob Gelt Dekker Copy Share Image
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