#percent

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change. ↗

— Peter Welch

#buildings #change #climate #climate change #contribution

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#clear #earth #forests #living #most

We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, we're planning for the worst, and the worst is now, and the car market is down more than 15 percent in France. There is so much uncertainty. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#companies #down #france #market #moment

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#fifty #fifty percent #get #hundred #i

I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time. ↗

— Gilbert Gottfried

#calendar #fill #i #never #percent

When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#car #energy #first #form #gallon

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#hockey #mental #ninety #other #percent

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#creative #heard #kind #like #most

I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#counts #days #hour #i #i think

Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#medications #nearly #percent #pharmaceutical #senior