Calculating Quotes

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Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person. — Justin Cronin
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value. — George Iles
Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or handicapped citizen, no… — John F. Kennedy
A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It… — Del Howison
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust… — Charles Caleb Colton
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world… — David Graeber
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. — Honore de Balzac
We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind. — Mooji
My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a… — Anjelica Huston
Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific. — Frank Luntz
It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it,… — Christian Nestell Bovee
People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he… — Henry Louis Gates
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. — Donella Meadows
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker… — Arundhati Roy
Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we… — John Sununu
I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good… — Kanye West
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. — Oscar Wilde
There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks. — Neil Gaiman

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