“Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.” ThinkingHandsBigsPresidentDifferencesStruggleOrdinaryPercentCapacityShoesPresident ObamaRomney Author:Ken Salazar
“Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.” MomentsHandsCostPercentRoundsEmsGamblingDefiningBettingDefining Moments Book:Hold'em Excellence: From Beginner to Winner Source: Hold'em Excellence: From Beginner to Winner
“Controlled Middle East oil, it would control the world. This oil represents 65 percent of world oil reserves. Therefore, America believes if it squashed Iraq, it would control the oil of the Middle East and consequently hold the oil in its hands [and] fix its price the way it likes.” IfsWorldWayBelieveHandsAmericaMiddlePercentIraqOilEastLikesControlledMiddle EastReserves Author:Saddam Hussein
“On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.” KindHas BeensHandsSecurityPercentAddLondonAll KindsNonsenseBusSchemesAdventurousSubwayCheckpoints Author:Otto Schily
“Man Ray... loved games and absolutely knew about the camera. It is interesting to note that, although I used him in only about 10 percent of the photographs and videotapes, most people think of him as omnipresent in my work. It irked me sometimes to be known only as the guy with the dog, but on the other hand it was a thrill to have a famous dog.” PeopleThinkingMenSometimesHandsUsedGuyGamesInterestingKnownDogPercentCamerasNotesPhotographWorking ItRaysThrill Author:William Wegman
“I wrote 90 percent of the record in prison. A lot of people wonder, "How the hell did you do that?" I just pretty much played drums on my legs with my hands and while I did that, I would hum the guitar parts and sing the melodies of the songs.” PeopleHandsSongWonderHellRecordsPercentPrisonGuitarLegsMelody Author:Ronnie Radke
“When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.” PeopleMenWorldFirstsTwoStatesHelpingHandsGovernmentForceNationsSocialUnitedPayUnited StatesPolicyCoupleHigherCostTaxesEqualMarriedMajorsPercentStructureIncomeSexismSpouseSalaryEntryIncome TaxFree WorldMarried CouplesWorking WomenSocial Policy Author:Millicent Fenwick
“I think 'retirement' goes hand in hand with people who make a living by having a 'job.' I don't think we-the .00001 percent of the population who are so fortunate to love passionately what we do-consider it a 'job.” PeopleThinkingHandsJobsPercentAgingPopulationFortunateRetirementHand In HandPassionate Love Author:Dustin Hoffman
“Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans.” BelieveHandsFiveEvolutionRepublicanPercentDon't BelieveEightSixtyMonkeys Author:Stephen Colbert
“How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.” IfsTryingYearsHandsFunnyRememberScienceForgetHalfTechnologyPercentSeconds Author:Tom Duff
“Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.” MenCountryHandsWealthPercentFeministHandbagsWomen Bashing Author:Earl Wilson
“I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.” WantHandsFacesNamesBehindsProductsProjectsPercentHundred Author:Kim Kardashian
“If 90 percent or 95 percent of those - chemical stockpiles [in Syria] were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of ISIL or Nusra or, for that matter, the regime.” IfsMatterHandsRight NowWeaponsPercentChemicalsRegimesSyriaChemical WeaponsIsil Author:Barack Obama
“Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.” IfsShouldHas BeensHandsWould BeThreeFiveFourRiskSecurityPercentFairsFolksSpendingTouchedImmigrantsImportsFood Security Author:Tom Vilsack
“Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percent—as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every way—to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.” MenWayHumansCountryHandsStrongKeysPercentCursePerpetualHuman HistoryHandfulEmancipationServitude Book:The White Tiger Source: The White Tiger
“I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.” SelfFactsHandsEnergyStrongEnvironmentProductsPercentConsciousHundredExtremesFinishedSillySuperiorsMetalsEfficiencyEvidentPropositionsHypothesisElectricalElectrical Energy Book:I, Robot Source: I, Robot