Figures Quotes
2652 quotes by 2005 authors
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Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is no greater authority…
— Phil Jackson
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You know, the same percentage of people are gay and lesbian as are left-handed. Let's try to figure that out. How can it be that…
— Peter Camejo
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In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of…
— John Bowlby
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It's just a combination of letters I liked. And when your whole art's based on the lettering you choose, you kinda figure out what ones…
— Unknown Author
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Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels…
— David Sylvester
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The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and…
— Zell Miller
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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to…
— Robert Greene
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My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If…
— Mortimer Adler
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Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this…
— Angelina Jolie
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Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.
— Katherine Ellison
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A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence…
— Conrad Hilton
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If your kitchen table is like mine, you sit there at night before you put the kids to bed and you talk about what you…
— Joe Biden
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When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how…
— Christopher Dodd
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Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.
— Steffi Graf
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A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
— Issey Miyake
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Luck is one thing. It has always been there, it has always been a part of my success. It's a part of everyone's success. Without…
— Valentino Garavani
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The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the figures on the…
— Sparky Anderson
Who Wrote These Figures Quotes
2,005 authors contributed a total of 2,652 Figures Quotes, led by these top contributors: