Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant. — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
[Tikka Khan] went to East Pakistan with precise orders and came back by precise orders. He did what he was ordered to… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“Don't go in for the "yellowish" if what you need is "yellow". The attitude called precision is the quality that remarks the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Nothing can happen, nothing can occur in your life which is not a precisely perfect opportunity for you to heal something, create… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
A competitive threat is not the same thing as an antitrust violation… It is difficult to make out FairSearch’s precise antitrust arguments.… — Peter Gallagher Copy Share Image
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is… — Amari Cooper Copy Share Image
You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will… — Tamara de Lempicka Copy Share Image
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
There's also a way that you have of being precise but also allusive, that works well for me - it's something about… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
“It was typical George Stout: detailed, timely, and understated. Here was a man that was never hurried. Who was careful. Punctual. Precise.… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
![“[Tikka Khan] went to East Pakistan with precise orders and came back by precise orders. He did what he was ordered to do, though he wasn't always in agreement, and I picked him because I know he'll follow my orders with the same discipline.” quote by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c80/zulfikar-ali-bhutto-13955_agreement_tikka-khan-went-to-east-pakistan-with-pr_1417480.png)
