Exacting Quotes

65 quotes by 57 authors

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanityâ€“awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most… — Richard Paul Evans
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space… — Nicholas Sparks
Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness. — Diane Setterfield
Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you… — Jesse Ball
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists… — Judith Lewis Herman
I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure… — George Saunders
It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Donâ€™t get caught in… — Paramahansa Yogananda
You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for… — C.S. Lewis
Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and… — Deepak Chopra
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley. — Ben Stein
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself. — Karl G. Maeser
Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed,… — Marcia Gay Harden
I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed. — Alex Morrison
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting… — Richard Byrd
The demands of modern living are so exacting that men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely — Robert Grant
I always am in a role, lovely for you, for them even for myself. Yeah... Even when Im alone, I am still in a role… — Superman

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