Precise Quotes

390 quotes by 349 authors

I can give a precise day when Christ came to me and began to transform my life with his power and love. — Keith Ward
A competitive threat is not the same thing as an antitrust violationâ€¦ It is difficult to make out FairSearchâ€™s precise antitrust arguments. There are alternatives… — Peter Gallagher
A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because â€¦ I've done this. I've ordered these kinds… — William J. Clinton
The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a… — Alain de Botton
You will not have that for which you ask, nor can you have anything you want. This is because your very request is a statement… — Neale Donald Walsch
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what… — Walter Pater
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of… — Frederick Soddy
I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a… — Louis Agassiz
Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where… — Honor Harger
To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them,… — David Abram
To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished. — James Dickey
Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as… — Muhammad Yunus
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in… — Raymond Queneau
A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person â€” it is of her, but is not her. Itâ€™s… — George Saunders
(The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more comprehensive: they project… — Kenny Smith
What is photojournalism? Occasionally, a very unique photo, in which form is precise and rich enough and content has enough resonance, is sufficient in itself.… — Henri
Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain… — Benjamin Graham
New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances.… — Daniel Hannan
History provides no precise guidelines. — Douglas Hurd
We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organâ€”with no… — Deepak Chopra

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