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In America, roughly 15 per cent of jobs are destroyed every year; and roughly 15 per cent created.
— Matt Ridley
Events in the past maybe roughly divided into those which and probably never happened and those which do not matter.
— William Ralph Inge
1 So Uganda is a nation of young people. Roughly half its citizens are adolescents, and there are few
— Katie J. Davis
In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.
— Facundo Pieres
So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.
— Steve Vernon
The Canadian dialect of English ... seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
— Lister Sinclair
The human race can be roughly divided into two categories: ailurophiles and ailurophobes - cat lovers and the underprivileged.
— David Taylor
Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.
— Edmund Phelps
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
— Karl Kraus
I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
— Lars Peter Hansen
Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.
— H.G.Wells
I know what it's like to not have hope," Qhuinn said roughly. "But destiny can surprise you.
— J.R. Ward
If a child is roughly treated and not respected and not shown love, the child will have problems with self-esteem
— Sunday Adelaja
What sort of person says that he or she wants to be polished and pure, then complains about being handled roughly?
— Rumi
Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
— Hanya Yanagihara
Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. (Roughly: It's easy for men to believe what they want to.)
— Gaius Iulius Caesar
We prefer to find mates who are roughly as attractive as we are, which means they are more likely to stay and not look for a better offer.
— Allan Pease
Anastasia, I earn roughly one hundred thousand dollars an hour. My mouth drops open. That is an obscene amount of money.
— E.L. James
African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today.
— Michelle Alexander
Roughly 21,000 new brands are introduced worldwide per year, yet history tells us that more than 90% of them are gone from the shelf a year later.
— Martin Lindstrom
Asking to hold a musician's instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man's wife.
— Patrick Rothfuss
If I were to sit normally, my deductive skills will immediately be reduced by roughly 40%
-L — Tsugumi Ohba
-L — Tsugumi Ohba
If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
— James Lovelock
Sirius pushed his chair roughly aside and strode around the table toward Snape, pulling out his wand as he went; Snape whipped out his own.
— J.K. Rowling
You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He had a face roughly the shape and color of a clumsily peeled Idaho potato, and he had a jaw like the end of a cigarette carton.
— David Markson
Mindy felt a jolt of attraction roughly akin to having someone seize her intestines and twist.
— Jennifer Egan
In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.
— Ronald J. Sider
For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes
— Vilfredo Pareto
The promises of Scripture may very roughly be reduced to five heads. It is promised (1) that we shall be with Christ; (2) that we shall be like
— C.S. Lewis
You can not even roughly guess where you can reach in life if you pursue the path of self-education.
— Deepak Burfiwala
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.
Which roughly translates as
Who will Guard the Guardians, or
Who watches the watchers. — Juvenal
Which roughly translates as
Who will Guard the Guardians, or
Who watches the watchers. — Juvenal
Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.
— William C. Bryant
She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
— Ann Brashares
I turned toward his army. It was now roughly one hundred and ninety-nine to one. I did the natural thing. I charged them.
— Rick Riordan
What am I?" she asked ...
"You are mine," he answered roughly, his forehead still on hers. — Carrie Ann Ryan
"You are mine," he answered roughly, his forehead still on hers. — Carrie Ann Ryan
So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms.
"I'm not fallen," he said roughly.
"Then what are you?"
He shrugged. "Busted. — Vicki Pettersson
"I'm not fallen," he said roughly.
"Then what are you?"
He shrugged. "Busted. — Vicki Pettersson
I was not good
to the last person I loved
so I punished my heart
(I let it bleed out
then roughly sewed it back together) — Clementine Von Radics
to the last person I loved
so I punished my heart
(I let it bleed out
then roughly sewed it back together) — Clementine Von Radics
The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements:
fear and love.
Love is of the soul.
Fear is of the personality. — Gary Zukav
fear and love.
Love is of the soul.
Fear is of the personality. — Gary Zukav
Speak roughly to your little boy
and beat him when he sneezes!
he only does it to annoy,
because he knows it teases! — Lewis Carroll
and beat him when he sneezes!
he only does it to annoy,
because he knows it teases! — Lewis Carroll
At $4 trillion, and roughly only $55 billion in equity, the Fed is leveraged about 77-to-1. They define the word leverage
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Roughly speaking: objects are colourless
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
in classical times as Babylonia, consists of the lower half of Mesopotamia, roughly identical with modern Iraq from north of Baghdad to the Persian
— Samuel Noah Kramer
Fucking unicorns wouldn't be hard to chase, as they'd probably stay in roughly the same spot while they, you know, fuck.
— Erin Kellison
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
— V.S. Naipaul
The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.
— Maya Angelou
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.
— Charles Stross
I estimated the ambient humidity at roughly a thousand percent, but tipped a little of my sweetened coffee into the saucer and blew on it nonetheless.
— Diana Gabaldon
Roughly 90 percent of songs have mating as their central theme, and this holds true regardless of cultural setting or historical period.
— Gad Saad
Chances of the Jews and Palestinians uniting to build the first interfaith space station are roughly equal.
— Stephen King
The average American burns 55 minutes a day-roughly 12 weeks a year-looking for things they know they own but can't find.
— Newsweek
Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it.
— Astro Teller
To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
— R.C. Sproul
The fact is that roughly two-thirds of all fiction purchases are made because the consumer is already familiar with the author.
— Donald Maass
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
— S. Jay Olshansky
In 1989, roughly one in fifty East Germans between the ages of eighteen and eighty worked for the Stasi in some capacity.
— Julia Angwin
The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying.
— Liam Neeson
A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax.
— Bob Frank
The fruit fly has roughly 150,000 neurons in the brain.
— Michio Kaku
You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.
— Keith Rabois
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
— John Maynard Keynes
I'm not the hero, princess," he said roughly. "Hell, I'm not even the good guy. Don't try to pretend I'm something I'm not.
— Tiffany Snow
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
— Douglas Coupland
That's when he finally turns his head to look at me. As he rubs himself, he swallows, and I see his Adam's apple bob roughly. "I need to know.
— Sarina Bowen
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento."
(roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual") — Miguel De Unamuno
(roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual") — Miguel De Unamuno
ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?
— Richard Engel
When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
— Bill Bradley
I grabbed her by the back of her neck and pulled her mouth to mine. "I fuckin' need your cunt, baby," I growled before roughly kissing her.
— Nina Levine
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
— Maureen Dowd
Because my apartment was roughly the size of a Cheez-It, it didn't take me long to feel my way to the kitchen in the dark.
— Darynda Jones
Don't get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
Yeah, my father is an egotistical douchebag," he says roughly. "My name literally means Jonathan empire.
— Krista Ritchie
I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.
— John Gurdon
How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?
— Larry Page
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
— Aristotle.
Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?"
This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these people win the Cold War? — Dave Barry
This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these people win the Cold War? — Dave Barry
Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.
— Jenna Jameson
She remembered her first impression of him, tall, roughly handsome, and dangerous, like poison dressed up in an attractive bottle. It
— Stephanie Garber
In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.
— Graydon Carter
Neanderthals made their exit roughly 30,000 years ago. The
— Yuval Noah Harari
I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.
— David Levithan
Culture is roughly everything we do and monkeys don't.
— FitzRoy Richard Somerset