Figures Quotes

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Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves. — Robert Breault
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more… — Carl Jung
Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to… — Alan Vega
Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work… — Alan Gottlieb
God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced… — David Levering Lewis
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had… — William Ernest Henley
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of… — W. Somerset Maugham
I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures… — Thomas Browne
The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned… — Andre Gide
Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey… — James Joyce
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes,… — Albert Camus
He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington — William E. Gladstone
I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny… — Ronald Reagan
The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance. — Henry A. Kissinger
I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you… — John Green
I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. — Robert M. Pirsig
Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his… — William Saroyan
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what… — Ernest Gaines
It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg… — Alice Meynell

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