Calculating Quotes

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks. — Neil Gaiman

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world. — Conrad Wolfram

There's no way of calculating how many ramifications a story will take on once one spies a gleam of attention in another's eyes. — Carmen Martin Gaite

You know, once you start calculating you shit yourself up before you know it. — Pedro G. Ferreira

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed. — William O. Douglas

Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman. — Sara Genn

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. — Frank Moore Colby

Quiet and calculating. He hasn't changed that much since. Always mild-mannered, the nice guy - until someone steps over the line and challenges him. — Elmore Leonard

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation! — Elizabeth Peters

The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage. — Franz Stampfl

I know it sounds calculating, but if you're not cute, you might as well be clever. — David Sedaris

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. — Oscar Wilde

I find that by some unfortunate chance I continue to want you, you jade-eyed sorceress with your wanton gold body and your calculating little mind! — Rosemary Rogers

Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine. — Louis Stanley

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God. — Oswald Chambers

Cruel, calculating, and deadly, Scourge murdered Tigerstar with one blow. — Erin Hunter

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness. — Henry Ward Beecher

I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she needs to say. — John Kasich

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. — Donella Meadows

Danglars was one of those calculating men who are born with a pen behind their ear and an inkwell instead of a heart. — Alexandre Dumas

Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type. — Walter Schellenberg

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. — Aneurin Bevan

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self. — Anton Chekhov

Unfortunately, many people are not really listening to you, but are calculating a reply that outshines you. — Charles F. Glassman

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone. — Melissa Sue Anderson

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action. — Anna Lappe

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side' ... — Marcel Proust

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ? — Rene Thom

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. — Samuel Johnson

Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind. — Ryohgo Narita

Forever resent this body is not mine,
when do we forget calculating to thrive? (Su Shih) — Sung Yee Poon

Chess isn't one of my favorites, it takes a cool calculating hatred to play well, and I'm not good at that. — Lilith Saintcrow

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people ... As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected. — Bertrand Russell

Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating. — Andre Brie

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating. — Samuel Reshevsky

When you are calculating an hourly labor rate, add in an additional thirty percent to that rate cover employment taxes. — James Dillehay

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are. — Margaret Thatcher

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating. — Emile Zola

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking. — D.T. Suzuki

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides. — Kanye West

All I know is that I am excessively calculating, especially when I appear not to be. — Dennis Covington

It is the love in our hearts that we need to act on and not the false match made by our calculating brains. — Ritu Chowdhary

Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care ... because you lose out if you don't have fun, right? — Bisco Hatori

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person. — Justin Cronin

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. — Honore De Balzac

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death
it is the only certainty. — Eugenie De Guerin

Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards. — J.B. Morton

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating. — Linda McCartney

Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating. — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind. — Mooji

Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific. — Frank Luntz

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value. — George Iles