Calculation Quotes

145 quotes by 128 authors

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails,… — Jane Austen
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong… — Antonio Gramsci
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future.… — W. Somerset Maugham
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our… — Kurt Vonnegut
The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or… — Winston Churchill
Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.â€‹ You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfoldâ€‹, comes at… — Rainer Maria Rilke
But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished… — Albert Camus
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of… — Jamaica Kincaid
His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his professionâ€¦He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner… — Milan Kundera
Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal… — Anais Nin
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. — James E. Faust
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move… — Michel de Certeau
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's… — Lois McMaster Bujold
â€¦There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the… — Jesse Ball
At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted a game, or… — Mary Renault
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has… — Karl Marx
We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a… — Yukio Mishima
There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures.… — John Ortberg
Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too. — Richelle Mead

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