I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I have found that when calculating what no one has calculated before, like my observing sessions on the mountain, my mental acuity… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action. — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people, I've often wondered what else I might have been. When I was younger, but even after I… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
And he said that 47%-that's pretty high-47% of Americans are basically welfare bums who are mooching off the government. And then he… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer… — Noel-Antoine Pluche Copy Share Image
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs,… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
