Figuring Quotes

“the only drinking problem I've ever had, is figuring out why I'm still stuck in this salad spinner”
― Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single

“I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that He’ll figure it all out anyway.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We can no more claim all credit for our achievement than deflect all blame for our impediments.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring

“I always thought there'd be enough time for everything & just today I figured out that's true as long as I don't expect to be alive for it.
—Time for Everything”
― Brian Andreas, Theories of Everything

“There was a lull. Sammy was staring across the room at George Opdyke, the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. I was about to say he was lost in thought, but Sammy was never really lost, and he never actually thought, for that implied deep reflection. He was figuring. Miss Goldblum edged her undernourished white hand into his. Sammy played with it absent-mindedly, like a piece of silverware.”
― Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run?

“Figuring out the new altitude sickness classification scheme and how to treat it is huge because it feeds into treating COVID19 and Long COVID!”
― Steven Magee

“[Johannes Kepler] saw the deftness with which the puppeteers of the populace dramatized dogma to wrest control – the church was then the mass media, and the mass media were as unafraid of resorting to propaganda as they are today.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring

“This was one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's most subversive plot lines—a radical case for love across the dehumanizing boundaries of class.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring

“To dismiss this longing for unremitting life as mere foolishness would be to take for granted the privileges of our own era—a privilege afforded by the men and women who have labored in labs to make our flesh a little more impervious, but only a little, to the ceaseless forces of decay that drive the universe.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring