Figures Quotes · Page 32

At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

— George Carlin

If we don't figure out global warming, we're not going to be able to be here.

— Lisa Rinna

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

— Michael Jordan

We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!

— Donella Meadows

Russia right now is searching for its soul. It's trying to figure out what it really is.

— Brent Scowcroft

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

— William Shakespeare

It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all.

— Woody Allen

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

— Rodman Philbrick

Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest...was not so modest.

— Richelle Mead

Voroshilov was a striking figure, with a great deal of influence among the workers, so that the degree of influence of the…

— Kliment Voroshilov

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing…

— Tom Lehrer

It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out…

— Erik Weihenmayer

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie…

— Plutarch

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able…

— Rebecca Solnit

You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've…

— Lev Grossman

I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to…

— Annie Lennox

Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But…

— James McAvoy

A New York City judge struck down a proposed law to ban sodas larger than 16 ounces. I think Mayor Bloomberg should…

— Craig Ferguson

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I'm against the idea that rock stars have to live a life that's completely understandable or predictable to their audience…Maybe I'll just…

— Debbie Harry

The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering…

— Richard Brautigan

The freeze of a photographic gesture, the fix of an action, how an arm twists, how a smile gets momentarily stabilized or…

— Leon Golub

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to…

— Melissa Manchester

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they…

— Ross Kemp

I've always loved the beauty world. Ever since I was a child, I looked at magazines and wore fragrances and tried out…

— Aerin Lauder

Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act,…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with…

— I. F. Stone

Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly…

— Augustus De Morgan

I was taken in the Spirit to the burning bush on Mount Horeb, Moses' "first ascension," and allowed to witness the encounter…

— Bob Hartley

My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse…

— Nigel Rees

Now, once again, we find ourselves facing rising gas prices, and the question is: This time, are we going to learn from…

— Dave Barry

Minho was the first one to speak since the food had come. “Maybe we should just give in to those shuckfaces. Do…

— James Dashner

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am…

— Pope Francis

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

— Rick Yancey

Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.

— Evan Esar

It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

— John Lennon

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone..

— Keith Urban

I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

— Anonymous

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.

— Andrew Mason