Calculating Quotes
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Tags: Age, Her, Woman ✍ Author: Oscar WildeWhat our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
Tags: Children, Fear, Tomorrow ✍ Author: J. G. BallardThe great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.
Tags: Fear, Good, Great ✍ Author: Niall FergusonPeople don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.
Tags: Country, Decision, Together ✍ Author: Henry Louis GatesI don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.
Tags: Boring, Try, Why ✍ Author: Chris O\'Donnell