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Precise Quotes by Walter Pater
- 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…
- A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and…
More Precise Quotes
- A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it.… — Unknown Author
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. — Franklin P. Adams
- We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority… — Annie Besant
- To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the… — Christopher Alexander
- To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. — Lionel Trilling
- War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible. — Charles Sumner