A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to. — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
“time...counts for precisely something because its quantity is fixed” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more difficult than to know precisely what we see.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity. — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Precisely because I'm a man who is attracted to women, there may be some things that I have to say as a… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other… — Joseph Wapner Copy Share Image
I forgive 'Face in the Crowd' its uneven tone because it's precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies. — Peyton Reed Copy Share Image
It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that… — Richard Parks Bland Copy Share Image
We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can… — Laura Wasser Copy Share Image
Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Go ahead, weathercasters and reporters: Tell Americans precisely what we don't want to hear: namely, that our self-indulgent, carbon-heavy, gluttonous and disposable… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and,… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to… — John Carter Copy Share Image
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language.… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance. — Gerhard Schroder Copy Share Image
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now... — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the… — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that,… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
What made Nelson Mandela great, was precisely what made him human. We saw in him, what we seek in ourselves. — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image