Figures Quotes

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

The whole point to being here, really, is to figure a way to get out.

Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.

I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.

The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.

It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen.

I like to sit on things and digest them and then I'll figure out my next move, but I never said I was right for doing anything.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had.

We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to figure out that it's a high mountain.

We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!

[On her thinness:] It's not what you'd call a figure, is it?

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.

If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.

When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music.

I just need to figure out how things work.

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

A safe rule where Jewish propaganda is concerned is to multiply or divide their figures by ten, at least, before accepting them as the basis for discussion.

When you finally figure out what you really want, everything else pales in comparison.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.

The beard must not be plucked. Ye shall not deface the figure of your beard.

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure out how you can make sense of it.

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.

People no longer know how to apologize, which is particularly noticeable among athletes, politicians, and entertainment figures.

The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.

I don't know what I could do besides sing but I'm not worried because I figure I've got the rest of my life to find out!

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.