Roughly Speaking Quotes

#1. Roughly speaking: objects are colourless

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#2. People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

Aristotle.

#3. Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it ... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.

George Orwell

#4. Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

Noam Chomsky

#5. Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.

Keith Rabois

#6. I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings.

Whitfield Diffie

#7. hardly anyone knows what vainglory is anymore. If anything, people use the word "vain" or "vanity" today to mean being conceited or puffed up about yourself (usually in an unjustified way) - roughly speaking, it's a form of pride equivalent to having an inflated sense of your worth or importance.

Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

#8. Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.

Shana Alexander

#9. Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.

Ronald Coase

#10. The Eater of Socks,' moaned the Senior Wrangler, with his eyes shut. 'How many tentacles would you expect it to have?' said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. 'I mean, roughly speaking?

Terry Pratchett

#11. I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.

John Gurdon

#12. I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

Lars Peter Hansen

#13. I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#14. Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

Serge Lang

#15. Modern art has to be what is called 'intense.' it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong.

G.K. Chesterton

#16. Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of people in the world ... the division follows lines of real psychological cleavage. I do not offer it lightly. It has been the fruit of more than eighteen minutes of earnest reflection and research.

G.K. Chesterton

#17. Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#18. There was of course no point in trying to monitor Eisman. He saw himself as a crusader, a champion of the underdog, an enemy of sinister authority. He saw himself, roughly speaking, as Spider-Man.

Michael Lewis

#19. Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily.

Bertrand Russell

#20. I don't remember Romeo being this pushy with Juliet!".....He arched his eyebrows meaningfully. "And look at how that worked out for them. My way is better - less death, more orgasms.

Tillie Cole

#21. For what it's worth: trust your feelings. I can't promise that you'll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.

Rick Riordan

#22. As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

Dick Van Dyke

#23. Philosophically speaking, from the Buddhist point of view, both human beings and animals possess what in Tibetan is called shepa, which can be roughly translated as "consciousness," albeit to different degrees of complexity.

Dalai Lama XIV

#24. Separation of church from mission is theologically indefensible. More

Lesslie Newbigin

#25. Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.

Ross Perot

#26. I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.

Aidan Gillen

#27. Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.

Walter Dean Myers

#28. The weather still continues charming.

Oscar Wilde

#29. Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.

Jacques Ellul

#30. I replaced someone on 'Days of our Lives' once, and the fans hated me. She was a redhead, I was a brunette: they went nuts. Even at fan events, they were rude to me.

Shelley Hennig

#31. Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander