Statistics Quotes (308 Quotes)

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ''character issues.'' Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics.

The fact is, you can get lost in the statistics, and I think a lot of people will be surprised by the Linux vulnerability numbers. But it's impossible to write perfectly secure software that's also functional.

As you know statistics show that a certain number of people get married each year and the rest don't. Well, I got into the wrong bunch of statistics. I should be pitied instead of questioned.

I continue to be disturbed by the statistic frequently cited in these hearings that five companies control 85 percent of our media sources,

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US 7 billion in Sudan in 2005.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

There's going to be a big impact there for a number of weeks. It's big enough to show up in the national statistics.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

That act on Sept. 11 made all economic numbers coming out useless in terms of trying to determine an overall trend in economy. More important are the policies that are going to affect future statistics, and they are good.

Gore has the economy on his side and the statistics he will be able to produce will be an impressive argument. I am expecting a very close election,

As it moves forward, and NASCAR fans are increasingly hungry for any news, statistics and information, it could really help NASCAR. There's some sex appeal to these statistics, because it really gives fans an inside look.

Texas Manager Buck Showalter sat in the dugout and saw a statistic on the board showing former Twins manager Tom Kelly's years of service. Kelly guided the club to two World Series titles in 16 years. Sixteen years, ... Take a good look boys, that ...ain't gonna happen again.

We've stopped 500,000 felons, fugitives and stalkers from getting their hands on guns, ... And the most important statistic is that gun crime in the country is down 35 percent.

Matt has the size and he has the arm to most definitely be a Division I guy. He's going to have the statistics, too. And with the quarterbacks we've had come out of here in the past four or five years, colleges are going to come see him.

We're not building a team on statistics. Sidney could represent us in 2010, but at this time, we're going to go with proven players who have won (at the international level).

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

We have fashioned a style for accommodating our guilt, for eating statistics. We haven't yet been able, and hopefully never will be, to posture successfully in front of a real person.

It all begins with the takeawaygiveaway. Anytime you go four games and don't get a takeaway and you're minus-8, it really doesn't make a whole lot of difference what else you do. Statistics prove that it's awful hard to win when you don't get a takeaway.

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Over the past four years, we've always had great games. It doesn't matter, statistics. ... It should be interesting. I'm confident in our pitching more than anything.

It was probably one of the strangest seasons I've ever had. The statistics say I didn't struggle. But my standards are different than everybody else's. That has been the case for a long time.

Look at the teams we played when I was not there - Indy, Minnesota, Green Bay, Philadelphia - that's four playoff teams right there. I don't think it's a significant statistic. We just have to play better when I'm not in there or play easier teams.

Most of the young people surveyed believe their financial situation will improve as they get older, and that eventually they will be better off than their parents. If you look at statistics about their economic prospects, it's not really as promising, ...

For instance, there is a direct link between infant mortality and premature birth. Clearly the more premature an infant is when he is born, the greater likelihood of complications. In fact, according to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services National Center for Health Statistics, complications stemming from short gestation and low birth weight are the second leading causes of infant mortality in the United States. Ironically, the advanced medical technologies used in the United States tend to increase our infant mortality rate, not decrease it. In the United States, advanced technologies and procedures have made it more practical in recent years for medical professionals to attempt to save severely premature infants. Such attempts do not always succeed, adding to the rate of infant mortality. Resuscitation is more likely to be attempted on extremely premature babies born in the United States than in many other countries, ... The extremely premature babies on whom resuscitation is unsuccessful are then counted as infant deaths, whereas they are counted as fetal deaths when resuscitation has not been attempted.

It became quite obvious that the opposition's intention was to prevent the publication of a budget in February, and therefore I felt I had an obligation to Canadians not just to provide the bare bones of statistics, but in fact to give a greater indication of how the flexibility would be used,

I saw an all-star and a guy who doesn't care about statistics. I'm slowly maturing as a player and a person. I still learning more every day.

Utility is our national shibboleth the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered the chilly administrative neatness of museums and filing cases, of statistics and cemeteries, is an inhuman and antinatural kind of order it is, in a word, disorder.

We can't go on with business as usual at Magic Waters, ... Looking at the numbers and statistics, we can't go on as we have.

Okay, let's take statistics. How many interviews have I given you in the last six years Just five or six Doesn't that say something I hate to sound immodest, but this dates back to my personality since the age of 13. I've always got attention, which at times has been quite unwarranted.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

All these statistics reflect the full force of the hurricanes on the broader economy and we will probably have another month of ugly statistics.

Statistics are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

(But) the statistics published today show that crime is continuing to fall and the chance of being a victim of crime is the lowest in almost a quarter of a century. This is a considerable achievement.

The introduction of the statistics engine is yet another step in our ongoing effort to couple systems-level application understanding with our various technologies to deliver value-added solutions that improve upon performance and cost effectiveness. Cust

Statistics are one thing, but at the same time, when the game is on and it's kickoff time, you never know how anyone is gong to react. You have older quarterbacks. Peyton Manning hasn't won a Super Bowl he's an experienced quarterback. It doesn't really matter, it just depends on how you play that day.

Wages growth is, from what we hear, firmer than you would see in the official statistics.

I think we would need to take a look at where the games are played, particularly in situations where there would be one play between two conference members with identical records. The statistics in all circumstances would favor the home team. So, if two t

In the ski jump someone did the math wrong, and for 50 years the wrong person had the bronze medal. It wasn't until 1974 that a bunch of Norwegian historians got together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Winter Games, and one of them looked at the statistics in the ski jump and realized that an American, Anders Haugen, had actually won the bronze medal, and a Norwegian had gone to his grave thinking he had won. But Haugen was still alive--he was 85--and he finally got his bronze medal.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ... It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society -- and that's the young and the poor.

In the last two years, men have gotten more involved in familial health. While women continue to generally feel responsible for maintaining healthy families, the statistics show that men are becoming more health active, not just for themselves but for their families.

We need a longer data record of hurricane statistics, and we need to understand more about the role hurricanes play in regulating the heat balance and circulation in the atmosphere and oceans,

He is so efficient. He seems to be playing smarter, more confidently. I think they have given him more responsibility. He's very, very accurate and doesn't make many mistakes. The statistics show he has three interceptions, but in reality it's only one. The others were deflected passes by receivers who should have caught balls.