Figures Quotes
2652 quotes by 2013 authors
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
— Aristotle
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
— Lance Armstrong
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It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was…
— David Attenborough
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I…
— Charles Babbage
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
— Lauren Bacall
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Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.
— Michele Bachmann
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved…
— Kevin Bacon
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I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
— Erykah Badu
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No one can figure out your worth but you.
— Pearl Bailey
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks…
— Philip James Bailey
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A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant…
— Russell Baker
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I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant…
— Christian Bale
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
— Honore de Balzac
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It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
— Antonio Banderas
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
— Dave Barry
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We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect…
— Mario Batali
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see…
— Joseph Addison
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I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.
— Glenn Beck
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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
— Martha Beck
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We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them…
— Annie Besant
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