Average Quotes

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You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them. — Kelly Cutrone
Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them. — John Dall
There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem… — Nnamdi Azikiwe
There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night… — Dalton Trumbo
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. — C J Cherryh
I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them! — John Diefenbaker
There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of… — John McCain
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of… — Thomas Carlyle
Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else,… — Paul Klee
You are the average of your five closest associates. — John Spence
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law… — Neville Cardus
If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial… — Eric Alterman
Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the… — George Jones
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher. — Eugene V. Debs
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability… — Will Durant
Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon. — Ronald Reagan
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the… — Virginia Woolf
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and… — Stephen Crane
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible. — Napoleon Hill

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