Figures Quotes - Page 18

For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...

It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.

That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.

I'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

Hillary Clinton is an experienced public figure.

I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure.

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

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.

Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.

I don't feel rushed to figure myself out. I have all the time in the world to do that.

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.

I had to survive a lot. I didn't premeditate my life. Life just happened as it did. And I had to figure it out as I went along.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.