Percent Quotes · Page 105

My parents were very traditional Nigerians who wanted doctor, lawyer, teacher [children], but when I actually had a dream and I presented…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

What may worry [Donald] Trump, the latest Gallup poll. It shows just 44 percent of Americans approve of how he's handling the…

— George Stephanopoulos

In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82…

— Judy Woodruff

We've found that patterns of site looting have increased between 500 and 1000 percent since the start of the Arab Spring. Now…

— Sarah Parcak

Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun;…

— Annie Dillard

When I do research, I have done - 90 percent of my time is the research, the other ten percent is the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I don't think child care is ever going to be much of a federal effort. Just like education. Six or 7 percent…

— Edward Zigler

Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have…

— Albert Watson

I believe you can do 99 percent of the things right but not possess a positive winning attitude, and you will fail.

— Arthur L. Williams, Jr

Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in…

— Andrew Greeley

I've felt it (shoulder soreness) since the first day I came, but more so now. Yesterday in the doubles I felt like…

— Marat Safin

As the United States has become an older nation, reverse mortgages have grown into a $20-billion-a-year industry, with elderly homeowners taking out…

— Charles Duhigg

The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s…

— Mickey Rourke

Woo your biggest fans. This rule says concentrate your efforts at understanding on the 2 percent of consumers that personally drive 20…

— Michael J. Silverstein

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

— Catherine Hardwicke

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

— Ne-Yo

The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to…

— Robert C. Solomon

A 1940 Gallup poll showed 83 percent of the public was against intervention. A good pretext was needed to gain support from…

— Jim Marrs

With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea…

— David Simon

Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to…

— Tom Vilsack

When I was younger, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was a mentor to me and gave me great advice. The best was to 'work 100…

— Allyson Felix

We remain vulnerable.There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

— Gijs de Vries

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100…

— Deborah King

Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.

— Yogi Berra