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Quotes About Guess

You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.
~ Delphine de Vigan
Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation. "Black bear," he repeated. "It's undoubtedly because I'm so terrible in battle." "I'd guess so," Will put in. "I've seen you in battle and you're definitely terrible.
~ John Flanagan
So, you'll be heading back to Castle Araluen tomorrow?" Halt asked. Gilan regarded him, head cocked to one side. "That's what it says here," he said, tapping the dispatch. "But how could you have known that?" Halt smiled. "Just a lucky guess," he said.
~ John Flanagan
In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.
~ John J. Mearsheimer
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.
~ John Keats
I wondered if the Goodlaw had been waiting for us, or if this was a chance encounter. I guessed this was my opportunity to find out.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I'm something of a foodie, I guess, and I'm a big Chinese food fan.
~ H. Jon Benjamin
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
~ Pierre Corneille
You have demons? Yes. That answer didn't surprise me, although how these demons connected with the movie was anybody's guess. Volkswagen demons, he said. You have Volkswagen demons? Yes. There. I said it. Happy now?
~ Geoff Nicholson
The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.
~ Paul Haggis
One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.
~ Mark Thomas
In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster
~ Claude C. Hopkins
I understood very clearly that something was required of me, but could not guess what I was expected to do. Some persons, knowing that they were later going to ask a favour, would have made themselves more agreeable when a favour was being asked of them. That was not Widmerpool's way. I almost admired him for making so little effort to conceal his lack of interest in my own affairs, while waiting his time to demand something of myself.
~ Anthony Powell
Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
But how could you guess what the motive was?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
These folks from New York are all so high and mighty, with their skyscrapers and banquets and everything that t if we don't guess they come from there when we first lay an eye on 'em, we just show ourselves as awful rubes. Oh, yes! Yes. You can always tell 'em by their touch-me-not ways.
~ Sinclair Lewis
It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can't see it. The only thing you can do is to guess, and to believe.
~ Haruki Murakami
I think Hillary Clinton's probably going to be indicted, is my guess. So anything she can do to deflect from her email scandal and other scandals which are coming down is probably good for her.
~ Corey Lewandowski
Hate will sharpen observation, affording opportunity for many a shrewd guess, and the construction of clever and false theories, but will leave the observer blind to the whole.
~ George MacDonald
Your eyes, ma'am -- as well you know!! -- cried Help me ! What could I do but respond to the appeal?' 'Next you will say that it went much against the pluck with you!' said Miss Trent, justly incensed. 'No service I could render you, ma'am, would go against the pluck!' Her colour mounted, but she said: 'I should have guessed you would have a glib answer ready!' 'You might also have guessed that I meant it.
~ Georgette Heyer
Whenever I start an acting job and talk to my fellow actors, and I tell them I am from Nottingham, they guess I'm from the Workshop, it's so well known.
~ Lucy Carless
To be able to work for 20 years as an actor in an industry that is not so predictable, I'm grateful every day. I'll do it till I drop, I guess - or drop out.
~ Richard Belzer
A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.
~ Mark Twain
The likelihood of my initial hunch being right was too low
~ Atul Gawande