Calculating Quotes

“Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care... because you lose out if you don't have fun, right?”
― Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 8

“Pilar said soberly: "The world is very cruel to women. They must do what they can for themselves - while they are young. When they are old and ugly no one will help them.”
― Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot's Christmas

“Whenever you keep score in love, you lose.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The shrewd marry for money, the scheming marry for status, the calculating marry for power, but the wise marry for love.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Close your eyes, pick a random book from the shelf and read it! Is this a correct method? No, wrong method! Make your choices consciously, by thinking, by calculating, not by chance!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“All the captain's wives belonged to the literate, well-traveled ranks of the new upper-middle class. Family records say as little about them as such records generally say about women, but one of them - probably Sarah's great-grandmother Mary Furber - left an unsigned diary that the Jewett sisters discovered in the old house when they were well into middle age. Set in Exeter in 1782, it shows us a young woman much like one of Jane Austen's Bennett sisters (the younger, flighty ones), engaged in a ceaseless and rather cold-blooded appraisal of the marriage market. Young men are ruthlessly sorted into two categories, "Somebodies" and "Nobodies.”
― Paula Blanchard, Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World And Her Work

“Rapunzel knew exactly when her adopted birthday was coming because of her careful tracking and observation of the heavens. What had started out as a child's interest in the longer days of summer and shorter days of winter had progressed into a study that would have been the praise of any university professor. She knew all the constellations, of course; which ones came and went with the seasons (Orion), which ones stayed wandering the heavens forever (the Big Bear). She could predict when Jupiter would rise. She could predict some lunar eclipses. She had astrolabes and pendulums and squares and straightedges and compasses for measuring the precise height of an astral object above her window ledge.”
― Liz Braswell, What Once Was Mine

“You think I'm hot?" She gave him a slow, sensual smile.
His hand dropped to her hip and he tugged her skirt up. "So hot, I think I need to do you over the sink."
When he looked at her that way, with heat and desire in his eyes, she couldn't deny him anything. "Did you lock the door?"
"Of course."
"Condoms?"
Liam sniffed. "I knew you were going to be at the conference. Did you think I'd come unprepared to service your needs?"
"We'll have eleven minutes for the good stuff. Three to clean up. Two to fix our clothes. Ten to get to our respective conference rooms. Does that work for you?"
Liam spun her around and yanked up her skirt. "I love it when you schedule our sexy times. It turns me on."
"That's good because I planned for this in advance and left the Avengers at home.”
― Sara Desai, The Dating Plan