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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain

Congress, Facts, Except

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison

Patience, Real, Blessings

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage

Two, Confusion, Put

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
Sidney Sheldon

Woman, Become, Another

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal

Today, Write, Read

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
Alice Walker

Time, Father, May

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo

Best, Alone, Thought

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
Timothy Leary

Time, Learning, Soul

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Theodor Adorno

Truth, Real, Belief

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Wedding, Human, Longer

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
Jackson Pollock

Time, Painting, Bound

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.
Martin Scorsese

Time, Good, Powerful

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Philip James Bailey

Time, Best, Live

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar

Science, Facts, Statistics

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
Doris Lessing

Stars, Film, Pleasure

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.
Diablo Cody

Women, Hope, Experience

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
Ralph Fiennes

Challenge, Playing, Writer

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Don Marquis

Women, Person, Keep

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

Afraid, Authority, Doctors

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.
Russell Baker

Time, Good, Political

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.
Robin Gibb

Country, English, Historical

We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact.
Theresa May

Last, Student, Seen

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
Rupert Everett

Good, Tell, Irritating

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
Alan Greenspan

Before, Moral, Facts

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
Bob Woodward

Political, Doubt, Remain

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.
Bob Woodward

Political, Ask, Call

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
Bob Woodward

Long, Books, Either

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.
Joaquin Phoenix

Love, Public, Seems

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
Sherman Alexie

Children, Against, Purpose

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. Edwards Deming

Fear, Wrong, Whenever

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