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Do not the figures make it clear that not the English, but the Indians, have enslaved themselves?' One
— Leo Tolstoy
I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.
— Anatoly Chubais
The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous.
— Richard Thaler
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The ancient writers were not merely convinced of Moses' existence: they saw him as one of the formative figures of world history.
— Paul Johnson
Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.
— Bob Goff
Iko grunted in a most unladylike way, drawing everyone's gaze to her. I get stabbed and she gets to marry Kai. That just figures.
— Marissa Meyer
Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.
— Misty Copeland
If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.
— Malcolm Forbes
The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.
— Warren Buffett
In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
— Barry Unsworth
The figure is just the most represented tool to get thoughts and feelings across.
— Jason Shawn Alexander
Leading man seems to quite often be an idealized figure.
— James McAvoy
We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.
— Henry Giroux
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
— Malala Yousafzai
Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.
— Tucker Max
The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
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[Francis of Assisi was one of the] signal figures who are catalysts for rapid change
— Jon M. Sweeney
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
— Andre Malraux
As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
— Thomas Browne
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.
— Joseph Addison
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
— Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
I havent won on my birthday since college, so its good to play hard and get a win by double figures.
— Chris Bosh
There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.
— Marjorie Benton Cooke
The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
— Bob Woodward
Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon.
— Dionne Warwick
I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.
— Rodney Dangerfield
I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.
— John Malkovich
We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.
— Tricia Helfer
They do tricks even I can't figure out.
— Harry Houdini
Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.
— Trevanian
He walked out without his money.The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.
— Umberto Boccioni
It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.
— Evgeni Plushenko
Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.
— Brian Kilmeade
All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful.
— Solomon R. Guggenheim
A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She's a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.
— Helen Gurley Brown
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
— Thomas Carlyle
We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say
— Don Watson
The figures of the past go cloaked.They walk in mist and rain and snow
And go, go slowly, but they go. — Wallace Stevens
It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
— Charles Spurgeon
Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?
— Robert Orben
Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures ... let that be our motto.
— Arthur Mattuck
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
— Jean Cocteau
Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
— Steven Pressfield
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did
— Irving Kahn
The shadow figures outside.
— James Patterson
Every time I get on an airplane I figure it's gonna get blown up. You live on the edge.
— Joan Rivers
The secret to success is to try to never figure that out.
— Rhea Perlman
This fight figures to be crunk
— Larry Merchant
The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.
— William J. Mann
Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.
— Anne Robinson
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.
— John Cameron Mitchell
At the end of this whole Apocalypse thing, I was petitioning to have action figures made of them.
— Rachel Higginson
The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures
— Leo Tolstoy
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed.
— Susan Vreeland
I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain
— Anton Szandor LaVey
I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.
— David Ogilvy
Alliteration seems to offend people.
— Dean Koontz
I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair.
— Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
— Mark Twain
It was not the sun, but the moonlight that shimmered in the garden, edging the leaves with silver and touching the outlines of the statuary figures.
— Diane Setterfield
Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain.
— John Kennedy Toole
