Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Leary

The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they're better than average.

Randy Newman

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

Michael Jackson

You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it.

Max Mayfield

I could never sleep if I felt like I didn't do everything that I could to impress upon people the gravity of the situation, ... New Orleans is never going to be the same.

Hugh Kingsmill

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Max Stirner

Nothing is more to me than myself.

Walt Whitman

I know perfectly well my own egotism.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Joe Heim

I think that has to do with the intensity issue. The voting was only 21 percent of the eligible voters. The ?yes' side was more invested, so more likely to show up as voters. They wanted to make a statement. The ?no' side was less organized. Eighty percent of the people didn't vote.

Eric Lander

About 99 percent of genes in humans have counterparts in the mouse. Eighty percent have identical, one-to-one counterparts.

Pat Peterson

Eighty to 90 percent of spam now have URLs.

Larry Turner

Eighty percent of the time I'm OK. Twenty percent of the time, it's overwhelming.

Tom Hylton

Eighty percent of the street trees in Paris are London plane trees.

F. Stone

Eighty one out of the 99 lots are owned by the project.

Richard Preston

An Ebola particle is only around eighty nanometres wide and a thousand nanometres long. If it were the size of a piece of spaghetti, then a human hair would be about twelve feet in diameter and would resemble the trunk of a giant redwood tree.

Dennis Prager

Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous

Dennis Prager

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

Dennis Prager

Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you

Gena Showalter

Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?

Mason Cooley

The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

Earl Warren

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Charlie Munger

Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

Ani Difranco

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

Oscar Wilde

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.

George Bernard Shaw

Paradoxes are the only truths.

Jack Bruce

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

George Carlin

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

Jeffrey Eugenides

All wisdom ends in paradox.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Don Davis

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.

Scott Smith

When you think about it, 'Siskel and Ebert' is reachable by 95 percent of televisions in U.S.,

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Steve Groene

Until someone tells us 100 percent sure that that's Dylan, we still feel that he's out there and he's safe and is going to come home,

Heizo Takenaka

Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.

Frank Berry

We're just trying to keep the streak going. We're just trying to keep getting better until we get to Nationals.

Scott Linebrink

Hopefully, this year's the same thing. Get the first one out of the way. But it's not like you're trying to keep a streak going.

Ben Gordon

We were 5-10 before this game, and that's just unacceptable at home. We have to turn that around and try to get a streak going.

Keith Tkachuk

It's unbelievable; it's frustrating. You don't want to use excuses, but (the injuries) are a big part of it. But nobody's quitting. We're just in a tough streak right now and we have to find our way out of it.

Avery Johnson

You think a streak is never going to come to an end. When it does, it doesn't feel good.

Jalen Rose

You're a win streak away from striking distance.

Kevin Towers

There've been times when I said, 'Who are we?'  ... But right when I started to wonder who we really were, we'd put together a streak that was not too bad.

Pat Bowlin

I didn't talk about the streak all week. I didn't want to use it as motivation.

Drew Brees

I don't look at it that we're 2-2. We won two in a row. We've just got to keep that streak going,