Figures Quotes · Page 48

No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

— Judith Viorst

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

— Josh Lucas

I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!

— Allan Sloan

Founders need to figure out what the message of the company is going to be.

— Sam Altman

Since I don't have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it's done wonders for my figure.

— William J. Clinton

My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had,

— Charles James

I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits.

— Barack Obama

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

— William E. Gladstone

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

— Denis Leary

First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the…

— James C. Collins

I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely…

— Allen W. Wood

Don't duh me!" Puck snapped. "Trying to figure out what you're thinking from one day to the next takes more brains than…

— Michael Buckley

Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain…

— Michio Kaku

I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that…

— William Petersen

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to…

— Graydon Carter

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from…

— Elisabeth Shue

So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in…

— Joseph Beuys

'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's…

— Cary Fukunaga

Does God have a reason for wanting us to be charitable, to take care of those who can't take care of themselves?…

— Rebecca Goldstein

When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind…

— Trent Reznor

I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my…

— Sarah Kay

Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a…

— Philip Glass

I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I…

— Ben Stiller

I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations…

— Max Lucado

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

— Ken Kesey

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

— Otto Neurath

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

— Joseph Addison

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.

— Robert Breault

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.

— Jana Kramer

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

— Richard Foreman

It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.

— Steve McConnell

I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.

— Sonia Gandhi

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

— Warren Zevon

Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.

— Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd'…

— Eric McCormack

We have to figure out ways to scare and entice our leaders more effectively than the fossil fuel industry has managed to…

— Bill McKibben

For me her image, the triptych, became a study of the weight the black male figure carries, given the fact that they…

— Claudia Rankine

Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas…

— Lois Capps

I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc…

— Vincent Piazza