The most sophisticated things in the world are precisely…

“Then he realized it was the most natural thing in the world, which was precisely why he was incapable of it.”

— Paolo Giordano

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

— C. S. Lewis

And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any…

— Chester Bowles

“When I was with her, my skin sighed that the center of the world was precisely here.”

— Joanne Horniman

Precisely because I'm a man who is attracted to women, there may be some things that I have to say as a spectator of…

— William T. Vollmann

We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of his politics,…

— Glenn Greenwald

I go for actors who do precisely what is expected of them.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but…

— Scott Stossel

I know precisely what it takes to become a business success and I will certainly draw upon my own experiences when considering whether to…

— Touker Suleyman

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

— Alain Badiou

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

— Immanuel Kant

The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal…

— Shashi Tharoor

You know, technology caught up with precisely what was wrong with the way that I used food.

— John Popper

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who…

— Antonio Damasio

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the…

— Breyten Breytenbach