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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

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s. — Andy Warhol

Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs. — Mario Cuomo

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

But for the young Laban, these black sheep were sympathetic figures, and by letting them appear on stage, he gave them an opportunity to be heard. — Evelyn Doerr

If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it. — Warren Buffett

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

If your why is strong enough you will figure out how! — Bill Walsh

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

I have a million dollar figure ... but it's all loose change. — Joan Rivers

[On her thinness:] It's not what you'd call a figure, is it? — Twiggy

[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

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry. — Mark Cuban

I learned the tyranny of figures before I knew the value of a pound. — Beryl Markham

Michael Owen will get double figures this season - or at least 10, possibly more. — Garth Crooks

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

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at ... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement. — Michelangelo

My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had, — Charles James

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

Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them. — William Shatner

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

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't need to. If the thing is there, why, there it is. — Walker Evans

Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today. — Brian Kilmeade

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you. — Brian Moore

Our early dating life consisted of trying to figure out whether we were dating. — Mariska Hargitay

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

If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money. — Jim Rogers

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

Well, it just figures, Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion. — Richard Stark

Christ. I fear I've just met the devil. Figures she's a woman. — J. Daniels

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

Zeke? Figures." She made a big deal about wiping her hands on her jeans. "Keep your germs to yourself. I have no idea where that tongue has been. — Lea Barrymire

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

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. — Alan Watts

You'd figure he'd go do something with his life, like maybe he could enlist and actually become a marine! — CM Punk

This fight figures to be crunk — Larry Merchant

That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable. — Rudolf Otto

Don't get ahead of yourself. Companies need time to figure out what they want to be. — Bart Decrem

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

I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures. — Leander Paes

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

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are. — Austin Kleon

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature. — Jim Leach

He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed. — Susan Vreeland

I masterbate in the shower. My action figures judge me. Especially the Justice League. — Tucker Max

This is a Hieronymous Bosch of facts and figures and blood and graphs. — Lorrie Moore

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

Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost. — Alice Sebold

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

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure. — Eugene Mirman

That figures," said Mom, stepping in from the landing and closing the door. "The only member of this family with a normal relationship is a sociopath. — Dan Wells