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Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes. -- Helen Rowland
On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations. -- Noam Chomsky
Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. -- Charles Goodyear
There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse. -- John Lasseter
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity. -- Noam Chomsky
We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories. -- Orville Wright
As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the cause of an estimated 1.5 million fractures annually. -- Lois Capps
By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry. -- James Monroe
Many people think that buying a fake product is harmless, but counterfeiting is estimated to result in annual losses of over $20 billion dollars to American companies. -- Tory Burch
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. -- George Jackson
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. -- Jared Diamond
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. -- Lactantius
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership. -- C. L. R. James
It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure. -- Graydon Carter
In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals. -- James C. Maxwell
That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it. -- Giles Andreae
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. -- Franjo Tudjman
I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. -- Christopher Columbus
By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. -- Bill Gates
Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed. -- David Ricardo
Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income. -- Al Franken
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform. -- George Will
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation. -- Daniel Tammet
Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation. -- Mark Skousen
Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get five-dollar nets to 500 million people? -- Jacqueline Novogratz
The value of life itself cannot be estimated. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time. -- Gertrude Atherton
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. -- Seneca the Younger
It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year. -- Elizabeth Vargas
Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth. -- Luc de Clapiers
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct. -- Jean de la Bruyere
It is estimated over 80% of all illnesses today are spiritual in nature. -- Johnny Hunt
It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created. -- Dennis Hastert
An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing. -- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second. -- Daniel Levitin
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy. -- Lucy Powell
A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010. -- Bjorn Lomborg
Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry. -- Huston Smith
The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them. -- Buffalo Bill
One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million. -- Suze Orman
The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago. -- Kendrick Meek
The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution. -- A. J. Jacobs
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac. -- Sharon Begley
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The estimated 11 or so million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States. This is what Mr. [Donald ] Trump promised back in November. -- Jake Tapper
The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries. -- Geoffrey Hill
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour. -- Carol Bellamy
The U.S. had about 10,000 nuclear warheads. It is estimated that the U.S. is heading towards having 6,000 nuclear warheads in the year 2012. -- John Burroughs
...the NCI...Annual planning Project Requirements (says that) by July 1, 1975, it is estimated that 670,000 people in the US will be working on cancer. -- June Goodfield
It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under oil for food ended up in the United States. -- Scott Ritter
If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart. -- Bernie Sanders
With an estimated population of nine billion people by 2050, we cannot continue to consume resources at the same rate and maintain our quality of life. -- David Suzuki
Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity. -- Jakob Nielsen
We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need. -- Jan Egeland
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included. -- Jerry Saltz
A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created. -- Mark Foley
Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can someone's true value really be estimated? Maybe there needs to be an Edmunds.com for people on TV. That would be funny and possibly cruel. -- Derek Hough
Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions. -- Julie Bishop
In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The famous herbalist Samuel Thompson used two herbs mainly, cayenne & lobelia. And with those two herbs, it is estimated he helped 3.5 million people recover from their illnesses. -- Richard M. Schulze
A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region. -- Greg Walden
Facebook has revealed their estimated net worth - $96 billion. That's almost as much money as businesses lose every year from their employees wasting time looking at Facebook. -- Jay Leno
An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40. -- Matthew Lesko
If I have sex, I know my quarterly estimated taxes must be due. And if it's oral sex, I know it's time to renew my driver's license. -- Ray Romano
About 30% of fresh food is thrown away in supermarkets every day, although they will deny it. British households are throwing an estimated 30% of their food away, too. -- Arthur Potts Dawson
In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe. -- Jen Lilley
Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons. -- Bartolome de las Casas
Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations. -- Bernie Sanders
Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide. -- Bob Filner
From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population. -- Loung Ung
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him. -- Oswald Chambers
The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year. -- Barack Obama
For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all. -- Melissa Bean
Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged. -- Herman Melville
Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge. -- Anne Catherine Emmerich
The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life. -- Gottfried Leibniz
On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed. -- Eliot Engel
This year, U.S. airlineswill carry a record 143 million passengers, who will be in the air for 382 million hours, during which they will be fed an estimated total of four peanuts. -- Dave Barry
An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That's 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes. -- Russell Pearce
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first half of fiscal 2006 has been exceptional for Cochlear. Importantly, Cochlear capitalized on a number of opportunities in this half with worldwide market share estimated to be in excess of 70%. -- Chris Roberts
An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. Thats 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes. -- Russell Pearce
Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio. -- Jay Leno
In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated. -- Duane Elgin
The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in the US annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer. -- Gary Null
Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it. -- Artur Davis
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Yet an estimated 99 percent of people who have a problem with eating gluten don't even know it. They ascribe their ill health or symptoms to something else-not gluten sensitivity, which is 100 percent curable. -- Mark Hyman, M.D.
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. -- T. E. Lawrence
It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent. -- Paul A. Baran
The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it the most complex structure, natural or artificial, on earth. -- Tim Green
(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:)Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda's total population, had been killed. -- Jared Diamond
The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week. -- Ezra Taft Benson

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