Precise Quotes

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And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which… — Jean-Paul Sartre
When do these three days expire?" "That's what pisses me off. I don't know. He was annoyingly vague." "The nerve. Threatening you and not being… — Karen Marie Moning
No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
You said he was a soldier. You don't suppose...?" "Oh, Gods." Ignata blinked. "You think something could be wrong down there?" All of them looked… — Ilona Andrews
Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time. — Dejan Stojanovic
He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort… — Ford Madox Ford
She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so… — Haruki Murakami
The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection… — David Levithan
Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside. — Steven Herrick
The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly… — John Green
Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down… — Peter Watts
Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot… — E. O. Wilson
Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise… — Neil Cross
You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was… — David Levithan
With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer. — Daniel Handler
It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example,… — Marvin Minsky
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to… — Carl Sagan
But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg… — Agnes de Mille
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a… — George Johnson
What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less… — R. D. Laing

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