Calculated Quotes

210 quotes by 191 authors

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of… — Annie Besant
A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors… — Craig Elliott
Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many… — Hernando Cortes
Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful… — Tom Platz
Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction. — Mark McCormack
The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to… — Benjamin Rush
A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she wants and goes… — Bruce Jenner
Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child. — Wes Fesler
Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a… — Mary McGrory
In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest… — W. W. Rouse Ball
Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. — Samuel Richardson
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply… — Richard Dawkins
The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love. — Antony Flew
Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength… — Delbert L. Stapley
Take calculated risks. — George S. Patton
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in… — James Hutton
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected… — Hannah Arendt
I've never been reckless-it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated. — Drake

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