“I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.” IfsSufferingPercentCommit Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.” KnowsWantBelieveChildrenCountrySufferingKnow HowPercentTreatmentAdhd Author:David Satcher
“40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.” ChildrenSufferingGrowthPercentNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Tom Lantos
“Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.” HumansFactsLawSufferingThreeWishSimpleEconomicBehaviorPercentEconomicsInvestingEnvyPhysicsPsychologicalEndeavorCaptureDisorderEconomistLaws Of NatureCapturedPsychological Disorders Author:Andrew Lo
“I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.” ThinkingWorldPainSufferingRealizingAnxietyPercentPrivilegeElitesPain And Suffering Author:Nouriel Roubini
“I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent of the total taxes on individuals. We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends. They take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.” GovernmentSufferingIndividualTaxesPercentGainsThirdsIncomeFederal GovernmentIncome TaxDividendsPayrollReceiptsCapital GainsPayroll Tax Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“Peace is here now. It's just that we don't recognize it. Let's say that 98 percent of people in the world are wanting peace. Now people say, even people from Siberia? Yes. We want world peace. The two percent is really tying to mess it up. It's so sad in a way, because by messing it up what are they going to get? Their children are going to suffer, their grandchildren are going to suffer, and they might even die before something gets good.” PeopleWorldWayWantChildrenTwoMightSufferingDiesPercentMessGrandchildrenSo SadSiberia Author:Yoko Ono
“Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into poor areas and cities around our country. Like predatory lending and misallocation of municipal services. These guys get municipal service, poor areas don't. So they run the economy into the ground, and who suffers the most? The poor pay more and they die earlier.” MenWayCountryRunningGuySufferingDiesWhitePoorPayCitiesEconomyPercentAreasFortuneSevenOur CountryCeoWhite ManNinetyLendingPredatory Author:Ralph Nader
“A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent for Oakland's youth) can hardly afford such social justice follies. But a pushover Democratic mayor and an overwhelmed police force have left what's left of gainfully employed Oakland taxpayers at the mercy of professional freeloaders and anti-capitalism saboteurs.” SufferingLeftForceSocialJusticeCitiesPovertyMillionsCrimeYouthPercentCapitalismMercyPoliceSocial JusticeDemocraticRateBudgetsFollyUnemploymentEmployedOverwhelmedDeficitTaxpayersMayorsPolice ForceOaklandBudget DeficitUnemployment RateSaboteursPushovers Author:Michelle Malkin
“The statistic that 67 percent of women's admissions to the psychiatric facilities are during the week before menstruation is critically important to every woman, and to every woman who feels she suffers from depression.” FeelsImportantSufferingWeekPercentFacilityAdmissionPsychiatricMenstruation Author:Ayelet Waldman
“It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also helped spawn the housing bubble that gave us the financial crisis of 2008, the lingering effects of which have forced many OWS protesters to try to launch their careers in by far the most inhospitable labor market we've seen since the Great Depression. Even those recent graduates who manage to find jobs will suffer a lifelong penalty in reduced wages.” TryingJobsSufferingCareersEffectsPercentLaborCrisisFinancialDrivenManageInequalityRisingGraduatesBubblesPenaltiesWagesHousingLifelongExaggerationGreat DepressionFinancial CrisisLingeringSpawnHousing Bubble Author:Robert H. Frank
“In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.” PeopleAmericaSufferingEconomyFinePercent Author:Nina Turner