Best five & ninety Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.”

Ifs Way Matter Running Success Lost Hours Five Percent Make Sense Seconds Ninety Marathon Outstanding

Author:Ralph Marston

“I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.”

Mother Father Lost Five Ninety Cemetery Poland

Author:Simon Wiesenthal

“Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.”

Five Wise Innocent Ninety

Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.”

Five My Time Cents Ninety

Author:Antony Garrett Lisi

“I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose you lose to gain.”

Years Different Lost Given Loses Five Gains Hats Ninety

Author:Theophilus London

“We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.”

“The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.”

Ifs Men Two Different Asks Mistake Talking Five He Man Logic Seven Philosopher Plus Ninety

Author:Thomas Friedman

“A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.”

People Country Wisdom Politics Company Economy Five Share Figures Percent Scales Income Liberalism Capitalist Equity Ninety Discouraging

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?”

Facts Home Age Community Five Media Acceptance Percent Old Age Experts Sixty Emphasis Ninety Nursing Nursing Home

Book:Fountain of Age

Source: Fountain of Age

“Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.”

Needs Believe Feelings Reality Today Race Five Pride Pure Cents Ninety Delirium National Pride

Author:Benito Mussolini

“I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.”

World Years Ends Lasts Guy Five Movement Couple Harder Series Eight Nine Rely Throwing Last Year Location Ninety Eighty World Series Mph

Author:Andy Pettitte

“I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'”

Looks Sometimes Together Five Lucky Percent Dinner Cooks Recipes Ninety Mexican Supermarkets So Lucky Mexican Food

Author:Salma Hayek

“I'm a competitive bodybuilder; I'm not training just to be healthy. Ninety-five percent of the people training with weights are into this health thing, and it's a different mentality entirely.”

People Different Five Healthy Training Percent Weight Mentality Ninety Bodybuilder Different Mentality

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.”

Faces Fighting Enemy Knowing Five Sacrifice Battle Equal Bravery Brave Ninety

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.”

Bigs Five Player Percent Entertaining Big Things Ninety Hardcore

Author:Will Wright

“How do you keep ninety people together with one stick? I've got two sticks and I can't keep five people together.”

People I Can Two Together Five Sticks Ninety

Author:Ian Paice

“It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free.”

World States Facts Nations Five Impossible Weapons Percent Nuclear Arrogance Nuclear Weapons Ninety Free World

Author:George Lee Butler

“Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.”

Five Percent Including Statistics Ninety

Author:Keith Waterhouse

“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.”

Knows Men Dies Clear Five Alive One Day Hundred Senses Ninety Unattainable Five Senses

Book:The Cherry Orchard

Source: The Cherry Orchard

“When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.”

Way Doe Stills Five Advantage Tables Best Way Exes Ninety Referring Life Time

Author:Ringo Starr

“It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.”

“In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs.”

Done Together Lasts Five Four Drug Seasons Snow Thirty Twelve Sixty Lightning Thunder Ninety Last Day

Author:Lewis Black

“When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom?”

Eye House Boys Five Saint Forty Bathroom Ninety Statues Eyes Looking

Author:Pat Cooper

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