Top 1200 Figure Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.

They do tricks even I can't figure out.

Figure out what works for you and what doesn't.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

Sting is a father figure to us all.

I'd been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn't figure out. That's a big part of my life: I just feel really sick a lot of the time and can't figure out why. I'd gotten these shots in Russia, where we'd just been. It was just heavy. It's just heavy performing for people who really care about you, and you don't really care that much about yourself sometimes.

It's not hard to figure out when you're not welcome.

In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. The world will allow itself to be subdued only by success. It is not ideas or opinions which decide, but deeds. Success alone justifies wrongs done With a frankness and off-handedness which no other earthly power could permit itself, history appeals in its own cause to the dictum that the end justifies the means The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

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

We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we do a very bad job of it. We don't really know. And we also spend a lot of time trying to figure out who will be a good teacher, and we're really bad at that too. We don't know if someone is going to be a good teacher when they start teaching. So what should we do in those situations in which predictions are useless?

Well, I can't figure out God.

I've done figure drawing classes or whatever.

Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure.

In a closed urban fantasy, the magical world is secret and no one knows about it. In an open urban fantasy, everyone knows about it. So with a closed fantasy, you have to figure out how the world keeps itself secret, and with an open one, you have to figure out how knowledge of magic has altered the world we know.

The Japanese are hard to figure out.

I write poems to figure things out

I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

I really like figure skating.

You dream big and you figure out where you fall.

Figure out who you are.

I remember a prominent conservative media figure, talking to him about prominent liberal media figures that he knew, that he liked. And I questioned him. "How can you trust these people? I mean, these are..." "No, no! They're good guys. In fact, one of them likes you, says you're not a hater." And I was supposed to be thrilled to hear this!I was supposed to be mollified that some liberal media figure had just pronounced I was okay because, after he had listened to me, he had determined I wasn't a hater. I did not take that as a compliment, and I got kind of mad.

I'm an intimidating figure.

Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as it now seems; he would be an important figure in the history of gay writing and in the history of transatlantic literary relations even were his poetry not so good as it is. With his life as it was and his works as they are, he's an obvious candidate for a volume of retrospective and critical essays, and this one is first-rate.

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

The Pope is not a political figure.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

Don't nobody like a man they can't figure.

I like being a cult figure.

Figure out what you want, how you want to feel, whatever your motivation is, you have to figure it out. That's step one: where do you want to be? The next thing is just trying to get there and cutting yourself some slack along the way. You're going to have days when you veer off your path, then just get right back on. We all have cheat days, holidays, or celebrations, whatever or period when we can't work out as much as we like, and just do the best you can and when you can get back on track, get back on track.

I love figure skating. It's what I'm good at.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

I don't see myself as a political figure.

If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

I'm just a brother trying to figure it all out.

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

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has the ability to replenish itself that fast. But most of you do not have the ability to change your thoughts that fast. So the amount of time that it takes between sickness and wellness is only the amount of time that it takes for me to figure out how to let it in - for me to figure out how to feel good, when I'm looking at something that makes me feel bad.

A generous figure is always nice.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

Competition helps people figure it out.

I figure that not everyone can like you.

When you are a public figure, relationships are a bit complicated.

I've always wanted to be an action figure.

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

I like to keep my girlish figure

The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.

We had to get out of Chicago so quick. Election night happens, suddenly I'm talking to Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson and trying to figure out whether the world's going to fly apart, and Michelle is trying to figure out where the girls are going to go to school. And we pack up and leave and basically our house in Chicago just became like a time capsule. My desk in my home office still had stacks of articles and bills and stuff from 2008.

I love my hourglass figure.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

Overnight, I became a public figure.

I don't really regard myself as a political figure.