Survey Quotes

159 Survey quotes by 128 unique authors

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality… — Plato
On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating. The other 20 percent lied. — Bruce Lansky
As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending… — George Greenstein
That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet.… — Christopher Cokinos
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even. — Judith Guest
A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything… — Jay Leno
A recent government survey found that 47 percent of all women report being the victims of either physical, emotional, sexual or economic violence. But 84… — Unknown Author
One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist,… — T. Colin Campbell
When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our… — Oliver Goldsmith
No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that… — John Calvin
There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or… — Harvey Pekar
The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates. It’s first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of… — Jacque Fresco
According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what… — Daniel Yergin
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical… — David Brin
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned… — Arthur C. Brooks
The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa presents a striking… — Terryl L. Givens
A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of… — Herbie Brennan
Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of it. Every last… — Bill Bryson
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose… — Samuel Johnson
If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for… — Paul Newman
A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important. — Takeda Shingen
I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness. — Mary McCormack
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep. — Janet Street-Porter
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in… — Leonard Woodcock

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