Average Quotes
1590 quotes by 1249 authors
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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
— James C. Collins
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the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.
— H. L. Mencken
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You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X…
— Bill Bryson
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To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of…
— Lynne Truss
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I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than…
— John Green
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The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I’ll never be an average woman.
— Charlaine Harris
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There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average
— Stephen Hawking
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You would think, wouldn’t you, that if you were the child of a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better than average marriage…
— Julian Barnes
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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once,…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
— Bruce Lee
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only:…
— Pablo Picasso
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It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves…
— George Eliot
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
— Henrik Ibsen
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Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average…
— Daniel Gilbert
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What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the…
— Woody Allen
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The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
— H. L. Mencken
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The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.
— Joel Salatin
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I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per…
— Joel Salatin
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In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or…
— Christopher Hitchens
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There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.
— Benjamin Carson
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