Calculated Quotes

“I don’t live by other people’s time tables; I live by Gods.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Everyday take one optimistic calculated risk to find out how far you can go.”
― Debasish Mridha

“To become a better you, dare to take calculated risks and overcome your limitations. Your scars can make you a star, but you have to decide.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“If I’m calculating what I’m giving, I’m in fact stealing twice. First, I’m robbing the other person of all that I could give them. Second, I’m robbing myself of all the blessings inherent in the giving. Therefore, giving of this sort turns to losing of the worst sort.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I think that my fear of being sacrificial is based on the assumption that I will give away far more than I could ever hope to get back. And while that assumption is blatantly wrong, maybe the greatest thing that I’m doing wrong is that I’m walking around with an assumption.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I rarely see intelligence used intelligently.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Bring me the crown, Cardan,' Balekin says.

Prince Cardan turns on his elder brother the same cool and calculated gaze with which he has regarded so many other creatures before he's torn the wings from their back, before he's cast them in to rivers or sent them from the Court entirely. 'No, brother. I do not think that I will. I think that if I did not have another reason to cross you, I would do it for spite.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“She pulled out her journal. "The lights-- I mean, lanterns-- always appear a month and eight days before the summer solstice," she said, checking her figures and drawings for the thousandth time.
"May twelfth. Yeah," Flynn said.”
― Liz Braswell, What Once Was Mine

“Become a 'game rearranger.' Cut the BS and WALK sharply in the TRUTH you can see...especially in calculated conversations which could be dangerous in their motive-operandi. Look and listen deeper into the spirit of your dialogues.”
― Lady Tracey Bond DoubleOHHSeven™

“My dad is a modern-day vizier. Machiavelli reincarnated. He will say what needs to be said to support his point.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“If a vision can be calculated, it was never a vision.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When dealing with systemic injustice, just because something is not calculated doesn't mean it isn't by design.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci