“ Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash. ”
- George S. Patton- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice. ”
- Casey Stengel- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. ”
- Alexander Haig- Copy
- 889
“ It's an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement... it seems like FEMA is just a money pit. ”
- Mark Foley- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. ”
- George Mason- Copy
- 522
“ You know you're a skydiver when... you analyze every flag you see in terms of it's too windy/not too windy to jump. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 3K
“ Certainly, this doesn't warrant a censure or expulsion. As I read the ethics subcommittee report, there's clearly no finding at all of any intentional violation. ”
- Peter King- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me. ”
- Twyla Tharp- Copy
- 417
“ No cause, no movement and no grievance can justify the intentional killing of innocent civilians and noncombatants. ”
- Condoleezza Rice- Copy
- 215
“ Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe. ”
- Bill Blass- Copy
- 176
“ It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without becoming soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ There will be motions made in court to enlist its support for a thorough investigation. It was selective violence calculated to destroy the ability of the defense to present its defense. ”
- Ramsey Clark- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and coordinated campaign of deceit. ”
- Janet Reno- Copy
- 84
“ When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely — calculated less or more. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
- 345
“ The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. ”
- Peter Rena- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. ”
- Wayne Dyer- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion. ”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Copy
- 1.4K
“ To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 542
“ When you engage in systematic, purposeful acting, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident about yourself. ”
- Brian Tracy- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. ”
- George S. Patton- Copy
- 2.1K
“ 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
- 854
“ Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. ”
- Warren E. Burger- Copy
- 91
“ 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
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