Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Alan Watts

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

David Krumholtz

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

David Graeber

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

Carl Sagan

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Casey Affleck

When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.

Mark Blondin

We are going to shut down their operations, and if he would do the math he would come back to the table,

Charley Reese

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Charles Lindbergh

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

Charles Krauthammer

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

Bill Pullman

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

Edgar Friedenberg

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Charles Lamb

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

Bernard of Clairvaux

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

Anton Chekhov

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

Arundhati Roy

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.