Calculating Quotes

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'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
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. — Aneurin Bevan
I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating… — Alan Dershowitz
The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and… — Sun Tzu
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. — Frank Moore Colby
People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating… — Wayne Gretzky
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender;… — Rajneesh
Just understand, don`t choose - don`t choose even choicelessness. Simply understand the whole situation: that whatsoever you choose, whatsoever you do, will come out of… — Rajneesh
The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried… — Karel Appel
On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and the propriety of… — George Biddell Airy
The reason for your poor projections is often right in front of you. Whether you are using statistical analysis or just an average, sometimes the… — Des MacHale
With Browns' ticket prices what they are, you just know that all those dads who brought the entire family to sit in the 'dog pound'… — Dennis Miller
It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur… — Noel-Antoine Pluche
Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a… — Saint John Chrysostom
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters… — J. G. Ballard
Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards. — J B Morton
I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to… — John Stamos
I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone — Melissa Sue Anderson
I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to.… — Chris O'Donnell

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