Best percent & problem Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel, create 25 percent of the world's carbon dioxide. It is us - it is the affluent lifestyles that we lead that overwhelmingly contribute to this problem. And to call it a problem is to understate what it really is. Which is a crime. Crime against the poorest and most marginalized people on this planet. We've never figured out, though God knows we've tried, a more effective way to destroy their lives.”

People Knows World Way Country Problem Crime Planets Happenings Percent Lifestyle Fuel Global Warming Carbon Fossils God Knows Poorest Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Marginalized Affluent

Author:Bill McKibben

“More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real crisis of Katrina is the hundreds of thousands of ravaged, displaced and traumatized children.”

Children Real Problem Events Serious Percent Crisis Mental Health Exposed Katrina Health Problems Traumatic Events

Author:Bruce D. Perry

“Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Problem Found Sports Hurt Ability Magic College Higher Exercise Solutions Percent Medicine Average Solve Productivity Intense Bother Sweat Superhero Pills Puddles

Author:Chalene Johnson

“I never tried to write for other people. I liked people who had problems I might have, because we all have insecurities, regrets. I like heroes who were not 100-percent perfect, who things to take care of.”

People Writing Problem Might Care Perfect Regret Hero Percent Take Care Insecurity

Author:Stan Lee

“I like Spider-Man because he's become the most famous. He's the one who's most like me - nothing ever turns out 100 percent OK; he's got a lot of problems, and he does things wrong, and I can relate to that.”

Men Doe I Can Problem Turns Percent Like Me Relate Spiders Spider Man

Author:Stan Lee

“The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens of millions of Americans who have dropped out of high school or college. It's not nearly as big a problem as the 40 percent of children who are born out of wedlock. It's not nearly as big a problem as the nation's stagnant human capital, its stagnant social mobility and the disorganized social fabric for the bottom 50 percent.”

Humans Children Problem Bigs School Nations Social Born Wealth Education Poverty Millions College Percent High School Bottom Fabric Stagnant Mobility Wedlock Disorganized Social Mobility

Author:David Brooks

“Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems dont belong to my fans. I dont put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.”

Giving Problem Energy Behinds Audience Fans Stage Personality Percent Burden

Author:Koko Taylor

“In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.”

Source: One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

“If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.”

Ifs Two Use Problem Care Cases Childhood Cost Percent Thirds Medical Primaries Expenses Curves Competitors Comprehensive Obesity Reconcile Charging Childhood Obesity Primary Care

Author:William J. Clinton

“Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry.”

“I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway.”

Thinking Way Writing Wells Problem Values Actors Nations Comedy Politician Percent Solve Ridiculous Virtuous Sober Bragging Tabloids Pedestal About Family Family Values Writing Comedy

Author:Steve Coogan

“I do not think there is such a thing as a "clash of civilizations." When I say that Muslims as Muslims cannot be represented in the West, I was being ironic, and also referring to the fact that ninety percent of the time when people talk about "the problem of Muslims" in the West, it is to complain about the fact that Muslims have not "integrated."”

People Thinking Facts Problem Civilization Percent West Complaining Ironic Ninety Clash Integrated Referring Clash Of Civilizations

Author:Talal Asad

“We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.”

Knows World Problem Used Purpose Air Travel Percent Eight Oil Fuel Broads Vehicle Funny Travel Highways Truck Ninety Air Travel Ninety Eight

Author:John Olver

“Unreason is now ascendant in the United States - in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.”

World Believe States Problem Government School United United States Ignorance Evolution Degrees Percent Court Satan Branches Federal Government Belly Superpower

Author:Sam Harris

“Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That's great, because now they understand the root of the problem is not that we haven't passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem is in terms of our social value system.”

People Country Enough Problem Spiritual Law Values Social Term Havens Six Percent Roots Our Country Seventies Value Systems Social Values

Author:Charles Colson

“There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.”

World Wells Stills Problem Turns Class Economy Alive Percent University Despite Budgets Agendas Articles Academic Entrepreneurial

Author:Tom Peters

“The fact is, out of all the possible reasons for going bankrupt, only three account for nearly 90 percent of bankruptcy: a job loss, a medical problem, or a divorce. And the fact is that those are exactly the kind of calamities that the bankruptcy courts were designed to help people through.”

People Kind Reason Facts Helping Problem Jobs Three Loss Percent Accounts Court Divorce Medical Calamity Bankruptcy Job Loss Medical Problems

Author:Amelia Warren Tyagi

“In the Communist Party, we address problems very openly and sometimes very vocally, and we point out abuses. This is a good thing. We exercise self-criticism once a year. Although 80 percent of the members of the National Assembly are also members of the Communist Party, this does not prevent them from sharply criticizing the administrative and governmental system.”

Years Doe Self Sometimes Problem Party Exercise Members Percent Criticism Abuse Good Things Addresses Criticize Communist Assembly Administrative Communist Party Self Criticism

Author:Nguyen Minh Triet

“Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer foreigners an identity because the Germans hardly have a national identity themselves. That is certainly a result of Auschwitz.”

People Problem Today Results Identity Offers Percent Backgrounds Germany Foreigners Auschwitz National Identity

Author:Bassam Tibi

“Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.”

People Problem Care Percent Twenties Don't Care Glad Confusion Frustration Problem Solving Eighty Gladness

Author:Lou Holtz

“If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.”

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Author:Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

“Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.”

People Giving Reason Problem Economy Politician Giving Up Percent Solve Medical Allowing Refusal

Author:John Stossel

“The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year. Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population. The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.”

Children I Can Two Helping Problem Reality Social Lines Poor Wonder Poverty Five Building Percent Weak Twenties Our Children Safety Painful Solve Cycles Jail Twenty Five Interrupted Safety Net

Author:Peter Yarrow

“Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.”

Two Problem Lasts Law Numbers Cost Percent Performances Thirds

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“Our [Afghanistan] main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, saying the Quran says this, Quran says that, and the Afghans believe that because they speak Arabic, they think they know the language of Quran, and they know Islam better than us, let's follow them. So they simply follow them.”

Thinking Knows Believe Problem Speak Language Percent Islam Iraq Population Terrorist Afghanistan Syria Pakistan Quran Uneducated

Author:Najibullah Quraishi

“Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.”

People Ifs Problem Percent Disappear

Author:William Schutz

“As far as the refugees are concerned, it's not that America doesn't want to accept refugees.t's that we may not be able to, because this is an issue we have to be 100 percent right on. If we allow 9,999 Syrian refugees into the United States, and all of them are good people, but we allow one person in who's an ISIS killer - we just get one person wrong, we've got a serious problem.”

People Ifs Want May Persons States Problem Able America United Accepting United States Issues Serious Percent Concerned Good People Killers Refugee Isis Syrian Refugees

Author:Marco Rubio

“This is part of the president's problem. Where's Barack Obama been when the crime rate and the murder rate in Chicago has gone up in 18 percent? Where has he been when the murder rate in New York is up 11 percent? Instead he and liberals like Bill de Blasio and Rahm Emanuel and others, what they're doing is not supporting the police departments, not making sure that they're being supported, and they're letting them do their jobs. And so we have criminals who have easy access to guns.”

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Author:Chris Christie

“America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.”

Problem Kids School America Terrible Percent High School Thirds Educational Minorities Finishing Youngsters Finishing School

Author:Colin Powell

“27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers”

Problem Percent Gambling Revenue Casinos

Author:John Warren Kindt

“It's important to recognize the vital role that the financial markets play in our economy and that so many of you are contributing to. To function effectively those markets and the men and women who shape them have to command trust and confidence, because we all rely on the market's transparency and integrity. So even if it may not be 100 percent true, if the perception is that somehow the game is rigged, that should be a problem for all of us, and we have to be willing to make that absolutely clear.”

“The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35 percent for youth, they bail out the banks, public schools, there is a deep divide. We need a plan for reconstruction and redevelopment and I hope that - police are the gatekeepers but behind that gate are these problems of disparities and injustice.”

“And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really isn't the problem we have. I mean that's where it came from, though. We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that's $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands - losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow, then let's integrate. But since the Supreme Court issued its desegregation decision seven years ago, and you only have about six or seven percent integration now, on an educational level, that means that the black man trying to use integration as a means of solving his problem will be another 100 years just getting integration on an educational level.”

“We thought that the odds of things working OK were up in the upper 90 percent or we wouldn't have gone. But the - there were some problems cropped up on the flight but was able to take care of those OK and - although they were things that we hadn't really trained that much for. But it was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology.”

War Problem Care Able Technology Gone Cold Percent Pressure Take Care Flight Odds Cold War

Author:John Glenn

“In most cases, I don't know how much, I cannot say if it's ninety nine percent or eighty percent, but the problem with incestuous relationships is that they often come from frustration. And from need of power.”

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Author:Gaspar Noe

“It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be viewed as this myopic problem, because it's not. It's in 98 percent of all businesses, and it's easy for people to dismiss this conversation when they think it's around white women entertainers. But this is about all women in America.”

People Thinking Want Problem America Easy White Pay Issues Conversation Equal Percent Concern Entertainment Gaps Entertainers Equal Pay Entertainment Business Myopic

Author:Patricia Arquette

“40 percent of people who come to visit America on a visa overstay their visa and we have no idea where they are. On 9/11, at least 2 of the hijackers were here on visa. They were traveling back and forth to the Middle East. And we really had no idea where they were or what they were doing. And they were overstaying their visa. So there are problems I think in the immigration system that need to be fixed for our safety.”

People Thinking Needs Ideas Problem America Middle Percent Safety East Immigration No Idea Fixed Middle East Back And Forth Visa

Author:Rand Paul

“It's not by coincidence that a lot of protesters against the new presidency in America and in front of the Trump Tower, even in London... the protesters were 90 percent women. The image of the woman and the problem of the woman still exists. Not exactly in the same terms as 200 hundred years ago, but we still have the problem here.”

Years Stills Problem America Term Fronts Trump Percent Hundred Years Ago London Towers Coincidence Presidency

Author:Claude-Michel Schonberg

“And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt.”

People Ifs Years Firsts Looks Said Stills Facts Problem Government Next Percent Solve Debt Next Year Pennies

Author:Marco Rubio

“If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.”

“I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.”

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Author:Herman Cain

“We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.”

World States Facts Problem Faces United United States Mankind Solutions Percent Adversity Reverse Omnipotent Omniscient World Problems

Author:John F. Kennedy

“We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.”

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Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem”

“Kylie stormed into Holiday's office. She dropped down into the seat across from the desk and looked her friend and camp leader right in the eyes. "I hate boys. I'm seriously considering going lesbian." Holiday's expression was part grin, part groan. "If it was that easy, ninety percent of the women in the world would be gay." She made a funny little face and then asked, "So...boy problems?”

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Author:C.C. Hunter

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