Exacting Quotes

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We must practice revolutionary democracy in every aspect of our Party life. Every responsible member must have the courage of his responsibilities, exacting from others… — Amilcar Cabral
No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting. — J. Frank Dobie
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. — Eugene Delacroix
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor,… — Henry Ward Beecher
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life… — Peter Ho Davies
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't… — D. H. Lawrence
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. — Eugene Delacroix
In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our… — Jerry Bridges
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting. — Henry Adams
The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects. — Jacques Maritain
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of… — Eugene Delacroix
The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering… — Frederick Lenz
We might do well to stay home a few days and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of the barn door… — Wheeler McMillen
As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they are in great… — James Whistler
My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a… — Anjelica Huston
The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of… — David L. Katz
The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him… — Lawren Harris
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known… — Charles Krauthammer

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