Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

Jon Porter

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

Nikola Tesla

An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of our existence. He is also better qualified than the average individual to protect himself in peril, for he is observant and resourceful.

Nicole Krauss

...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum

Mike McCready

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

The headline number probably isn't as important as the wages and average hours worked. Earnings are still the main driving force, and the jobs number is just a hurdle in our path.

The height-weight charts you see in doctors offices are determined right here by the people who participate in this study. Monroe County was selected because the government tries to get an average picture of Americans in the country, and the county seems to be a good representation of the national population.

The hardest thing is trying to keep everybody happy. We're sharing minutes, and that means some scoring averages go down. But the bonus is having that depth, which we didn't have last year.

The hardest thing for us is to build is lasting consumer loyalty. The average consumer shops at three sites; we want to be two of those three sites.

The growth that the state is experiencing requires us to pursue increased investment. Given our obligation to serve, there isn't another option. Electric rates are still an excellent value and will remain so even if the company gets the full effect of the increase. Rates on average will still be lower than they were 20 years ago.

Darin Strauss

A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It's okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn't okay when those novelists don't outshine their bland, average subjects.

You will save an average of 35 percent on generic medication and 15 percent on name brand medication. ...This way it reduces their out-of-pocket expense.

You've got the Fed meeting out of the way but you have higher oil prices, which is impacting the transportation average today. As far as oil is concerned, you're coming into the heating oil season and inventories are down. I think that weighed upon (Fed chairman) Greenspan's cautionary bias.

Jeff Green

You've got Lowry, who is willing to go in there and get rebounds. He averaged at least six a game. So I don't think that will be a big problem for them. Florida will have to keep Villanova from getting offensive rebounds, because that's a big thing for them.

Gene Simmons

And in music, it's the great aphrodisiac that says that even though I'm short, fat, ugly, bald, and... and I'm hung like a second-grader, but if I'm in a rock band, I've got a better than average chance of bedding you down than if I was a dentist.

The juniors are a pretty good class, and we have five good sophomores. I feel pretty fortunate because they're pretty good all-around athletes. We've been pretty impressed with their overall skills. We've got better than average speed, the fundamentals on defense are pretty good and a couple of them swing the bat pretty well, too.

These are not your average hackers. They're highly skilled people who try to find holes in commercial software.

These are double to triple the number we would see in an average season.

This is my ninth year to sing with the chorus. I joined after I retired and I certainly enjoy singing with them. Our average age is 72 and we have a great time together. We practice each Thursday from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Our performances begin around the middle of April.

This is likely to lead to a lower-than-expected average selling price for Intel's overall MPU (microprocessor) portfolio.

Harry Caray

This has been the remarkable thing about the fans in Chicago, they keep drawing an average of a million-three a year, and, when the season's over and they've won their usual seventy-one games, you feel that those fans deserve a medal.

This is a great Happy New Year from the governor, and we thank him. What that will mean on average is a $90 bump for our families.

This is a landmark occasion in the history of our company, and in the history of automotive technology. As the purest tire inflation gas on the market, PurigeN98(TM) will be a key component in optimizing the performance of vehicles driven by the average consumers, and not just the vehicles of professionals and a few others who are aware of this alternative.

Bob King

All in all, it was just an average season.

Herbert Spencer

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance

Pharrell Williams

Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman.

Mariska Hargitay

They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult.

Matt Ridley

The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better.

Henrik Ibsen

Deprive the average human being of his life-lie, and you rob him of his happiness

Charles M. Schwab

Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.