“ The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated. ”
- David Douglas- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. ”
- Andre Malraux- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions. ”
- Eddie Perez- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. ”
- Jorge Luis Borges- Copy
- 226
“ When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
- 379
“ I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 1K
“ Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe. ”
- Bill Blass- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
- 2.7K
“ But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty. ”
- Eugenio Montale- Copy
- 3.1K
“ For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measurement ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 1.9K
“ There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. ”
- Ida B. Wells- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me. ”
- Clay Aiken- Copy
- 966
“ Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Most successful people are people who take risks — calculated risks — but nevertheless, risks. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.1K
“ INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 800
“ The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. ”
- Alexander Haig- Copy
- 752
“ Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely — calculated less or more. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
- 4K
“ In the three years I played ball, we won six, lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician… calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose. ”
- Roger M. Blough- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. ”
- George S. Patton- Copy
- 3.1K
“ No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute. ”
- Paul Gallico- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. ”
- William Cobbett- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash. ”
- George S. Patton- Copy
- 2.9K
“ We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. ”
- Maxwell Maltz- Copy
- 3.6K
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