Average Quotes
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While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
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Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly.
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I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.
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Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
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The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
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In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.
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Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.
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What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there's inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced.
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Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true...but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use.
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I'm an average citizen and always have been.
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You must get Israelis to understand the feelings and the hopes and the traumas of the Palestinians. You have to get the Palestinians to understand why Israel is behaving the way it does: What is the legacy of the Holocaust, what are the fears of average Jewish people?
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I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!
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If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?
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A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
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In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.
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Sweethearts of Rodeo Drive' is inspired by the fact that a lot of people are being killed on both sides in Iraq and the average person in the States that I run into is a lot more concerned with how big their TV is. That's pretty weird. I look at my granddad's meticulously clipped headlines from World War II almost daily and I see that every action in that war was a two-inch bold print headline even if it wasn't one of the biggest battles. It was all major news. The scale of this war is a lot smaller, but someone being killed or a group of people being killed might be Page 3 or Page 12 news in the U.S.
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Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.
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The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.
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I feel like if I cut down on my strikeouts, it would help my average. But I don't want to be too patient. I just keep the same approach as always.
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The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15.
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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
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Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.
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I wasn’t going to be average.
