Children Quote by Steven D. Levitt Download Open image ““The swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.”” — Steven D. Levitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Swimming pool Time
“If you both own a gun and a swimming pool in your backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill… — levitt, steven Copy Share Image
If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
“Children only have one shot at their childhood, make the most of it.” — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
“No matter how old you are when a kid shoots you with a toy gun it is necessary that you pretend to have died” — Joshua Siranjofu Copy Share Image
“I learned how to use a handgun as a kid. Kidnapping is a constant risk for every child who grows up the way I… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“More people have died at the end of a loaded gun than from an empty stomach.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I know this might be breaking news to Nicholas Kristof, but guns being 'more lethal than anything else you have around' is sort of… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“a serial killer armed with a couple of feet of clothesline is far more dangerous than a cheerleader with a bazooka.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Maybe this doctor should have asked about the family bathtubs instead of the family guns. Because, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?” — Maaza Mengiste Copy Share Image
“Here is the broader point: whatever problem you're trying to solve, make sure you're not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“Human beings, for all our accomplishments, can be fragile animals. Most of us don't take criticism well at all.” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“The ECLS data do show, for instance, that a child with a lot of books in his home tends to test higher than a… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“In a complex world where people can be atypical in an infinite number of ways, there is great value in discovering the baseline. And… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“Morning robberies yield far more than afternoon robberies . . .' - When to Rob a Bank: A Rouge Economist's Guide to the World by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share
“The more complex a problem is, the harder it is to capture good feedback. You can gather a lot of facts, and that may… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“[...]if you are hoping to damage opponents' mental health, go ahead and tell them how inferior or dim-witted or nasty they are. But even if you are certifiably right on every point, you should not think for a minute that you will ever be able to persuade them. Name-calling will make you an enemy, not an ally, and if that… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share
“If asked how we'd behave in a situation that pits a private benefit against the greater good, most of us won't admit to favoring… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“The impulse to investigate can only be set free if you stop pretending to know answers that you don't. Because the incentives to pretend… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“From 2002 to 2008, the United States was fighting bloody wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; among active military personnel, there were an average 1,643 fatalities per year. But over the same stretch of time in the early 1980s, with the United States fighting no major wars, there were more than 2,100 military deaths per year. How can this possibly be?… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share
“But if you are hell-bent on persuading someone, or if your back is truly against the wall, you might as well give it your… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“Just because you're great at something doesn't mean you're good at everything.” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share
