Quotes of Estimation - somelinesforyou

“ Associate Yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. ”

- George Washington

“ She stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Had those calculations been properly done there would have been a larger background personnel and support,... With those mistakes embedded in it, the process began with the (Forest Service) agency and participants behind the curve. ”

- Bruce Babbitt

“ I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. ”

- Charles Babbage

“ She had never been able to understand the laws of a universe which was so ready to leave her out of its calculations. ”

- Edith Wharton

“ Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances. ”

- John Henry Cardinal Newman

“ Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic. ”

- Unknown

“ Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. ”

- Carl Sandburg

“ Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer. ”

- Carl Sandburg

“ The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation. ”

- Miriam Beard

“ Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. ”

- John Ray

“ We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ”

- La Rochefoucauld

“ He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. ”

- John McCarthy

“ God does arithmetic. ”

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

“ Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war. ”

- Titus Livius

“ We should start figuring out how we get out of there. But with this understanding, we cannot leave a vacuum that further destabilizes the Middle East. ”

- Chuck Hagel

“ I'm here at the elementary school in the morning and in the afternoon at the high school, so it's kind of a puzzle. Figuring out my place. ”

- Ed Moran

“ All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends. ”

- Eleanor Mondale

“ I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. ”

- Howard Aiken

“ It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

“ Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you. ”

- Fred Allen

“ It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. ”

- Josh Billings

“ De Pachmann, in my estimation, was a genius to whom everything was permissible. ”

- Harold Bauer

“ Calculation never made a hero. ”

- John Henry Cardinal Newman

“ No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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