Percent Quotes · Page 79

Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.

— Dennis Hastert

As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared to about 35 percent and 30…

— Peter Diamandis

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

— Lee Iacocca

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.

— Dick Gregory

You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play…

— Duke Snider

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves…

— Jack Germond

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they…

— Ato Boldon

Whatever the coach calls, I'm going to give 110 percent.

— Frank Gore

President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe…

— Monica Crowley

I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show…

— Jesse Williams

There's a huge misconception that it's all about the oil, and the truth is there's actually not much oil left in Abyei.…

— Rebecca Hamilton

I don't care how much you may think they're funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40…

— Marco Rubio

Psychics can never be 100 percent. I think that would be scary to be 100 percent.

— Sylvia Browne

We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking…

— Hamilton Jordan

Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

— Robert McKee

But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're…

— Tupac Shakur

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent…

— Dick Cheney

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent…

— Maureen Reagan

I can't believe it. Maybe there is a God after all. Herbal supplement sales only grew 1 percent last year. The years…

— Dean Edell

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

— Sam Donaldson

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying…

— Charlie Munger

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so…

— Tim Ferriss

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about…

— Richard Dooling

There is something fundamentally wrong about the way we [americans] are moving as a country, when billionaires are able to buy elections…

— Bernie Sanders

It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly…

— Michael Pollan

Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

— Natalia Makarova

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

— Alec Baldwin

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and…

— Bill Watterson

One of the things Obama's been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government…

— Phyllis Schlafly

Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the…

— Robert McKee

I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and…

— Jack Dorsey

Nowadays, we have to deal with so many more factors that weren't there in the past. It's not enough to be a…

— Valentino Rossi

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil. We only have 2 percent of the reserves.

— Barack Obama

Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years…

— Hal Sparks

Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours

— Richard Branson

How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did…

— Rand Paul

President Bush delivered his first State of the Union address, riding high on an 82-percent approval rating, and with Attorney General John…

— Jon Stewart