Figure Quotes

2773 Figure quotes by 2038 unique authors

I spent the first twenty years of my running career trying to run as many miles as I could as fast as I could. Then… — Jeff Galloway
The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure… — Barry S. Strauss
A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive… — Barry S. Strauss
One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this… — Brad Alan Lewis
Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist.… — Jeffrey Wright
In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on… — Arthur Schopenhauer
If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and… — Robert Kiyosaki
This is the idea that has made me...an anonymous figure in America...If you have children here tonight...they are NOT special. — Bill Hicks
In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated,… — Nicolaus Copernicus
A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about. — Doug Larson
A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is. That's because rhetorically… — Jonah Goldberg
The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective… — Carl Jung
I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part… — Robert Sheckley
One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge. What this means is that no matter how much you try to figure or calculate by… — Takuan Soho
What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it. — Chuck Yeager
I believe in controlling the control elements. Something where we don't have control on certain things, those things you obviously cannot waste your energy in… — Sachin Tendulkar
I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure… — John Shimkus
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional… — Jim Courier
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a… — David Leavitt
It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has… — Naomi Judd
You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love. — May Sarton
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it… — Honore de Balzac
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit… — Michael Pollan
I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as… — Frank Gifford

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