Per Cent Quotes
297 quotes by 260 authors
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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell…
— Tennessee Williams
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Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1…
— Bill Bryson
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some of my happiest funniest times have been spent in offices. Perhaps because the work was mudane, even the tiniest of distractions become wildly hilarious…
— Miranda Hart
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There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that,…
— Richard Dawkins
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Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent…
— Richard Dawkins
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The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly on the alliance…
— Mao Zedong
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I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism…
— Robert Harris
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Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and…
— Geoffrey West
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Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.
— Unknown Author
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I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.
— Cynthia Kenyon
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Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.
— Shiv Khera
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I enjoy three meals a day, and 90 per cent of what I eat is vegetarian and homemade. I occasionally eat non-vegetarian, and chicken preparations…
— Saina Nehwal
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I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs.
— Alice Temperley
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In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary…
— Derek Bok
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I prefer 100 per cent cotton Ts. They are kinder to lumps and bumps than figure-hugging stretchy Lycra ones and feel nicer against the skin.…
— Twiggy
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With approximately 75 per cent of our rubbish generated by packaging, a few simple steps - buying loose fruit and veg, choosing products with recyclable…
— Sheherazade Goldsmith
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In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per…
— Bob Diamond
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I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
— Paulo Coelho
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