Figures Quotes

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A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise,… — Stephen Colbert
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point… — Jodi Picoult
I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending. — Jodi Picoult
Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens… — John Green
It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being… — Pascal Mercier
Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything… — Irving Stone
I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a… — Irving Stone
I think I've been rather reasonable about this whole situation." "How do you figure?" "They are still breathing, aren't they? — Ilona Andrews
Parker: When can you start? Rainie: I can start tomorrow if you'd like. My schedule is pretty much open. All I have to keep me… — Catherine Anderson
Eve-"In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process?" Roarke-"Amen — Nora Roberts
They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais… — Cormac McCarthy
Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would… — Christopher Moore
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest… — Jodi Picoult
East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through.… — Edith Pattou
Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different.… — Emily Giffin
Looking up in the sky, I saw the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before- a gleaming constellation that… — Rick Riordan
She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b) what… — Maureen Johnson
Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. — Trevanian
I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one.… — D. J. MacHale
The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out… — Ted Dekker

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