Vast Majority quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody. -- Penn Jillette
  • Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives. -- Rand Paul
  • At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war. -- Paul Robeson
  • I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal. -- Estelle Morris
  • The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever. -- Janis Karpinski
  • The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality. -- Dorothy E. Denning
  • The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists. -- Bernie Sanders
  • By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time. -- Rosalind Wiseman
  • Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline. -- Mike Rogers
  • The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in their community. -- Marco Rubio
  • The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high. -- John P. Kotter
  • I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back. -- Tucker Carlson
  • Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel. -- Dennis Prager
  • To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming. -- Christine Pelosi
  • The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. -- Aldous Huxley
  • I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless. -- Alan Moore
  • For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy. -- Martha Beck
  • Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option. -- Andrew Weil
  • When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things.' It's true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that's taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success. -- Evan Williams
  • Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece. -- James Surowiecki
  • There are lots of research, of course, saying that a vast majority of us have been exposed to racial biases and stereotypes and, to some extent, we've internalized them, because that's so ubiquitous. That's why I'm so bored with the conversation about who's a racist and who's not. -- Tim Wise
  • We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease. -- S. Jay Olshansky
  • The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach. -- Martin Jacques
  • The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards. -- Edward Snowden
  • Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous? -- Ayelet Waldman
  • The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor. -- Peter Jackson
  • The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines. -- Stefan Molyneux
  • The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work. -- S. Jay Olshansky
  • The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody. -- Penn Jillette
  • The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country. -- George W. Bush
  • The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle. -- George E. Brown, Jr.
  • The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways. -- Eric Holder
  • The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4 -- Judith Lewis Herman
  • The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success. -- Evan Williams
  • The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit. -- Tucker Max
  • But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership. -- Martin McGuinness
  • --
  • I find that the vast majority of people who are judging are just fearful or insecure. -- Kristen Bell
  • --
  • The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors. -- Penn Jillette
  • The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. -- Aldous Huxley
  • The vast majority of Muslims are moderates working for a better future and seeking a peaceful life. -- Ahmed Zewail
  • The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
  • The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. -- William Broad
  • In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt. -- Michael Tsarion
  • The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. -- Felix Dennis
  • The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • The vast majority of mankind never gives a thought of gratitude towards God for all His care and blessings. -- Donald Barnhouse
  • God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything. -- Theodore Sturgeon
  • Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people. -- Russell Brand
  • To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
  • The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone. -- Evangelos Venizelos
  • Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great. -- James C. Collins
  • Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. -- Naomi Wolf
  • We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind. -- Chris Matakas
  • Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners. -- Carl Orr
  • Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible -- David Ogilvy
  • The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money. -- Rand Paul
  • There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. -- Bertrand Russell
  • What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? -- Desmond Tutu
  • Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible. -- David Ogilvy
  • The vast majority of people in any organization, even quite high up, have got no idea who the real masters are. -- David Icke
  • I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it. -- Tim Kaine
  • Having plead guilty, I do not believe that I am any different than the vast majority of the members of Congress. -- Dan Rostenkowski
  • Our most important allies in the fight against ISIL are the vast majority of Muslims who reject its apocalyptic ideology of hatred. -- Lindsey Graham
  • The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous. -- Dennis Prager
  • I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy. -- Hugh Grant
  • Sometimes it's better to pretend as if you know nothing. The vast majority of people can't be trusted, but in God I trust. -- S.Z.J. Mtshali
  • God had a heartbeat for 18-25 years old...the vast majority of whom don't have a clue why they are on this planet. -- Louie Giglio
  • The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health. -- Patrick Lencioni
  • Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest. -- Michael Arrington
  • While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality. -- Dorothy E. Denning
  • I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent. -- Jose Mujica
  • Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
  • The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany. -- Otto Schily
  • No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
  • I'll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I find youthful looks appealing. -- Julie Burchill
  • Our tax plan by the way shows the vast, vast majority of Americans, upwards of 96 percent can fill out their taxes on a postcard. -- Paul Ryan
  • The price for sitting and watching game shows and betting on lottery is that the vast majority of the viewers will never become rich -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life. -- Dennis Prager
  • I don't understand "animal people" who say they are not environmentalists. Do they not realize that the vast majority of animals live in the environment? -- Karen Dawn
  • Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet. -- Chris Hughes
  • The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity. -- Najib Razak
  • Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day. -- Jasper Fforde
  • The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance. -- Ellen Cushing
  • On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship. -- Nathan Deal
  • Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more riches for a few. -- Costa-Gavras
  • The vast majority of the rich in this country did not inherit their wealth; they earned it. They are the country's achievers, producers, and job creators. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • ...In the vast majority of drug experiments, it is not uncommon for none or one or two of hundreds of patients to benefit from the drug. -- Ted Gup
  • The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research. -- Clayton M. Christensen
  • For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date. -- Ben Horowitz
  • The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone? -- E. O. Wilson
  • The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services. -- Juan Williams
  • The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell. -- James Whistler
  • Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society. -- Mike Rogers
  • ...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions. -- Richard Dawkins
  • For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do. -- Ami Bera
  • Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion. -- Moby
  • I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
  • The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten. -- Lev Grossman
  • --
  • I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live. -- John Fogerty
  • I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society. -- Natan Sharansky
  • When I became secretary of state, we had 200,000 troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I'm very grateful that we have brought home the vast majority of those. -- Hillary Clinton
  • There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve. -- Nelson DeMille
  • Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back. -- Colin Fletcher
  • The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids. -- David Rolf
  • The vast majority of Muslim residents of the United Kingdom voted to stay in the EU. And the balance of the British population voted to leave the European Union. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • The vast majority of Muslim residents of the United Kingdom voted to stay in the EU. And the balance of the British population voted to leave the European Union. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if you don't have probable cause. -- Rand Paul
  • The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India stable. We religious liberals don't talk loudly enough. -- Amish Tripathi
  • Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S. -- Zac Goldsmith
  • The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value. -- Barry Ritholtz
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share