Figures Quotes

My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life.

Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.

Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.

What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.

There's something unique about me, we just can't figure out what it is.

Rely on facts, figures, principles of equality and fairness.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

I had to figure out myself to figure out my game.

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it

Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.

I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.

I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).

The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.

I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.

Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.

Figure out what you really love doing and use your strengths on a daily basis.

Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.

I can't figure out why fans keep coming, maybe it's because they dig the songs.

It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years.

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way.

Consider those whom you call your enemies and figure out what they should call you.

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it.

Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out beingvery good

But there was no time to rest on my laurels.

He walked out without his money.The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.

Numbers and more numbers...the future of mankind has come down to decimals. I guess you will figure that out, eventually.

He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism