The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation,… — Pele Copy Share Image
I just got the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police.We have endorsements from, I think, almost every police group, very -… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage… — Adolph Rupp Copy Share Image
It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Copy Share Image
Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that's over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
On-base percentage is great if you can score runs and do something with that on-base percentage. Clogging up the bases isn't that… — Dusty Baker Copy Share Image
All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we… — Douglas R. Oberhelman Copy Share Image
Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones… — David Coverdale Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination. — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig Copy Share Image
There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The ingredients of a hamburger seldom vary. It's a percentage of fat to lean meat, add salt and prepare and that's it.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in… — Sanford Bishop Copy Share Image
The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
When you go to bed tonight, ask yourself 'What percentage of my day did I spend creating residual income?' If the answer… — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related… — Leonard L. Berry Copy Share Image
I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that. — Bryan Shelton Copy Share Image
When you breast feed your child, that breast milk that nature starts us out on has almost the same percentage of polyunsaturated,… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the… — Donald Pleasence Copy Share Image
The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the… — Frank Scoblete Copy Share Image