Quotes about Eighty

Eighty percent of success is showing up. Votes: 4

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected. Votes: 4

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. Votes: 4

Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal. Votes: 4

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe. Votes: 4

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on. Votes: 4

People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life. Votes: 4

Eighty percent of love is smell. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of language lies to us. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees. Votes: 3

Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. Votes: 3

Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of those people with a passport from the Netherlands who go to Syria as jihadists are actually Moroccans. Votes: 3

Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didn't exist 60 days ago. Is there any other company that would do that? Votes: 3

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose. Votes: 3

Hi, I'm at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube. Votes: 3

Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior? Votes: 3

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness. Votes: 3

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism. Votes: 3

Eighty-five per cent of the time, people want to talk about 'True Romance.' That's the film I've made that really seems to have stuck with people. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense. Votes: 3

Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing? Votes: 3

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger. Votes: 3

I eat organic and cook my food whenever possible, and I live by the 80/20 rule. Eighty percent of the time I'm Stash all the way, 20 percent I enjoy the things I want. Votes: 3

Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of the things I do are not natural for my personality. I believe you have to fake it till you make it. Act like you're confident and you'll get there. Votes: 3

I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you're having them. Votes: 3

Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read. Votes: 3

Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts. Votes: 3

Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason. Votes: 3

Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test. Votes: 3

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up. Votes: 3

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport "” in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars. Votes: 3

I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with. Votes: 3

According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four hospitals across California have already been forced to close because of unpaid bills by illegal aliens. Votes: 3

Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle. Votes: 3

You know, like, none of us would choose - no matter where we are in the world - would choose to you know become a member of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" world, but how much choice is really the question. Votes: 3

It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh? Votes: 3

My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.' Votes: 3

Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?! Votes: 3

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes "” the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things "” there is nothing to fall back on. Votes: 3

I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it. Votes: 3

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor. Votes: 3

Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put teams of people on the frontline in the battle against feral animals, wildfires and noxious weeds. Science underpins everything we do. Votes: 3

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you. Votes: 3

Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do. Votes: 3

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love. Votes: 2

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. Votes: 2

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf. Votes: 2

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. Votes: 2

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent. Votes: 2

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. Votes: 2

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. Votes: 2

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Votes: 2

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. Votes: 2

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. Votes: 2

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. Votes: 2

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. Votes: 2

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. Votes: 2

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. Votes: 2

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know. Votes: 2

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning. Votes: 2

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. Votes: 2

What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone. Votes: 2

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty. Votes: 2

Life begins at eighty. Votes: 0

In a dream you are never eighty. Votes: 0

At eighty things do not occur; they recur. Votes: 0

After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors. Votes: 0

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends. Votes: 0

What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking? Votes: 0

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady. Votes: 0

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill. Votes: 0

Sex at eighty-four is terrific, especially the one in the winter. Votes: 0

The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five. Votes: 0

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Votes: 0

Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch! Votes: 0

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around. Votes: 0

One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time Votes: 0

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed! Votes: 0

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate. Votes: 0

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there. Votes: 0

You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. Votes: 0

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me. Votes: 0

I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I'd smelled in eighty years. Votes: 0

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love. Votes: 0

You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic. Votes: 0

At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again. Votes: 0

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did. Votes: 0

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. Votes: 0

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. Votes: 0

In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure. Votes: 0

I feel like I'm eighty years old. I'm tired of life and my mind wants to die. Votes: 0

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young. Votes: 0

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week. Votes: 0

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. Votes: 0

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. Votes: 0

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. Votes: 0

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom. Votes: 0

An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah. Votes: 0

The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings. Votes: 0

When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up. Votes: 0

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent. Votes: 0

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. Votes: 0

Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself! Votes: 0

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. Votes: 0

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh? Votes: 0

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad. Votes: 0

Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was. Votes: 0

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen. Votes: 0

Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle Votes: 0

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.. Votes: 0

We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie. Votes: 0

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent. Votes: 0

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love? Votes: 0

You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people! Votes: 0

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.' Votes: 0

I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often. Votes: 0

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell. Votes: 0

I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't. Votes: 0

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on. Votes: 0

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of. Votes: 0

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent. Votes: 0

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world. Votes: 0

Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that. Votes: 0

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think. Votes: 0

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay. Votes: 0

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start. Votes: 0

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. Votes: 0

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. Votes: 0

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me? Votes: 0

At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING. Votes: 0

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years. Votes: 0

[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church. Votes: 0

At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty! Votes: 0

However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications. Votes: 0

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number. Votes: 0

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think. Votes: 0

Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason. Votes: 0

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones. Votes: 0

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Votes: 0

A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years? Votes: 0

I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself. Votes: 0

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal. Votes: 0

Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to file out the forms or answer the phones? Votes: 0

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered. Votes: 0

A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage. Votes: 0

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields. Votes: 0

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth. Votes: 0

We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler. Votes: 0

I read a recent statistic that eighty-seven percent of women are dissatisfied with themselves, and over forty-seven percent of men. My work is visu-medicine to heal people and see beauty within people. Votes: 0

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes. Votes: 0

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother. Votes: 0

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. Votes: 0

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally. Votes: 0

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read Votes: 0

I don't think I'd have done comedy if I was born eighty years ago I'd have been a lord. Shooting people that were on my land With a wig, yeah. And some crisps. Votes: 0

Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time. Votes: 0

Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most perfect wines in the post-World War II era. Votes: 0

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core. Votes: 0

I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it. Votes: 0

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old. Votes: 0

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. Votes: 0

She started drinkin' we weren't thinkin' too straight, she was doing eighty slammed on the brakes. Got so hot we had to pull to the side, did some shakin' 'til the middle of the night. Votes: 0

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow Votes: 0

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. Votes: 0