Calculating Quotes

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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation! — Barbara Mertz
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition… — Niccolo Machiavelli
And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And… — Mark Haddon
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the… — Fernando Pessoa
Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense… — Oswald Chambers
I love you, i love your smile your snarl your grin, your face when your sleeping.I love your hair streaming behind you as we fly,… — James Patterson
Pierce made a calculating noise, accidentally brushing my knee as he shifted. "As Jenks would say, you snore nice." I smiled back unconvincingly. I snore… — Kim Harrison
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years… — Philip Pullman
Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the… — Katherine Applegate
Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind. — Ryohgo Narita
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care... because you lose out if you don't have fun, right? — Bisco Hatori
Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world. — Conrad Wolfram
Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously… — George Packer
Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of… — Michael Specter
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to… — Lewis Thomas
As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all the stuff that… — Anne Michaels
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being,… — Ritu Ghatourey
Half of a woman's life goes in calculating how to repeat a dress without letting people know. — Lekoma Precious Napo

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