“Calculation never made a hero.”
John Henry Newman
“Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.”
Samuel Johnson
“The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.”
Winston Churchill
“Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?”
Giacomo Puccini
“It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.”
Thomas Paine
“The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.”
Alexander Haig
“Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.”
Warren E. Burger
