Calculated Quotes

210 quotes by 191 authors

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course… — Knute Rockne
I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated. — Kevin Smith
The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting… — Saddam Hussein
I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my… — P.G. Wodehouse
The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop… — Terry Pratchett
Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness.… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a… — Jeanette Winterson
[God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for… — Bertrand Russell
To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a… — Bertrand Russell
The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population… — P.J. O'Rourke
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task. — Martha Stout
You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila… — Khaled Hosseini
I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be… — Emily Giffin
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all… — Susanna Clarke
anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate — Richelle Mead
Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to oneâ€™s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of… — Jodi Picoult
You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more… — Trenton Lee Stewart
Everything he'd done with regard to her in the last three years had been calculated to foreclose the intensely personal sort of talks they'd had… — Jonathan Franzen

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