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Calculated and craven political stunt. -- Tom DeLay
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront. -- Edward Abbey
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. -- Warren E. Burger
Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child. -- Wes Fesler
Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy. -- Bill Walsh
I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect. -- Billy Corgan
I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated. -- Drake
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. -- George S. Patton
I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk. -- Edmund H. North
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. -- Alexander Haig
When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move. -- Michael Douglas
When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible. -- David Green
I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves. -- Jen Kirkman
What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated. -- Chris Benz
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation. -- Ehud Barak
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. -- George Mason
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. -- Knute Rockne
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number. -- Henry Petroski
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. -- Maxwell Maltz
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him. -- Edward Sapir
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. -- William Hurt
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. -- Maxwell Maltz
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. -- Terry Pratchett
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. -- Andre Malraux
The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain. -- Steven Pinker
If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England. -- Idris Elba
At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic. -- Renee Fleming
Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. -- Annie Besant
Take calculated risks. -- George S. Patton
The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion -- Joe Rogan
Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests. -- Ambrose Bierce
You have to take calculated risks in life. -- Anthony Scaramucci
What was premeditated murder if not calculated leverage? -- James Patterson
Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind. -- Andrew Jackson
The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect. -- David Benioff
You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something -- Dhirubhai Ambani
War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings. -- Harry Patch
You can't really be too calculated about everything in life. -- Kristen Stewart
I've never been reckless-it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated. -- Drake
Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought. -- Antoni Tapies
Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company. -- Ray Kroc
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. -- Joseph Addison
The space involving insanity and genius is calculated only by good results. -- Bruce Feirstein
Money is in the exponent. And exponent needs to be calculated precisely. -- Lev Landau
At a better pace Slower and more calculated No chance of escape -- Thom Yorke
Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced. -- Taiichi Ohno
From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress. -- Carl Albert
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. -- Theodor Adorno
Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences. -- Celia Green
Most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important. -- Harold Ramis
Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision. -- John Goodwin
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated. -- Robert Barron
anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate -- Richelle Mead
Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. -- Samuel Richardson
Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe. -- Bill Blass
Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing. -- Michel de Montaigne
Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air. -- Francois Arago
Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future. -- L. Ron Hubbard
All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths. -- Kenneth Fisher
We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories. -- William Howard Taft
Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction. -- Mark McCormack
I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. -- Dean Alfange
The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework. -- Georgette Mosbacher
We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities. -- Agnes Meyer Driscoll
This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it. -- David Edward Kirk
Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated. -- Margaret Wertheim
With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties. -- Thomas Jefferson
I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile. -- Michael J. Massimino
Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions. -- Eddie Perez
Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional. -- Jacob Bannon
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. -- Sydney J. Harris
The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him. -- Orson Welles
In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else. -- Mason Cooley
The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found. -- Thomas Paine
You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough. -- Ernie Els
The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love. -- Antony Flew
Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected." -- Federico Fellini
Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp) -- Vince Flynn
Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected. -- Federico Fellini
We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security. -- Yitzhak Rabin
I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career. -- Eva Mendes
I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career -- Eva Mendes
Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give. -- Dave Ramsey
No more excuses or procrastination! Stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals. -- Steve Maraboli
For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk. -- Jessica Watson
I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression. -- Jane Fonda
You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning. -- Paula Deen
I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated. -- Kevin Smith
In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated. -- Leonid Shamkovich
Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated. -- Levon Aronian
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. -- Erica Jong
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. -- William Cobbett
There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch. -- Peter Roebuck
For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. Its not too calculated or technical. -- Daniel Boulud
For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical. -- Daniel Boulud
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book, -- William Godwin
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half -- Jan Timman
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task. -- Martha Stout
Beginning to work your plan means movement and action. The success of your movements and actions can only be guaranteed if they are well calculated. -- Archibald Marwizi
The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth. -- Jeremy Bentham
There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance. -- Jodi Picoult
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. -- Maxwell Maltz
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with. -- Al Alvarez
Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying. -- Ilka Chase
If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated. -- Paul Gauguin
Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals. -- Dan S Kennedy
Usually it's a pretty calculated, sustained, and slow process by which you develop something. The effect can be one of spontaneity, but that's part of the artistry. -- Richard Estes
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want. -- Thornton Wilder
Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness. -- Edward Gibbon
[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.' -- W. W. Rouse Ball
My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them. -- Lea Thompson
Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power. -- George Washington
Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit will stop immoral behaviour. -- Peter Joseph
Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few. -- Hernando Cortes
I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential. -- Jane Fonda

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