Exacting Quotes

65 Exacting quotes by 57 unique authors

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
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–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. Don’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

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