Percent Chance

Famous quotes containing the words percent chance, percent and/or chance:

    If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
    Bill Cosby (b. 1937)

    Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)

    yet there was a chance in this
    To see the present as it never had existed,
    Clear and shapeless, in an atmosphere like cut glass.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)