Precisely Quotes
1050 quotes by 766 authors
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When a man receives something Divine, in his heart he rejoices; but when he receives something diabolic, he is disturbed. The Christian heart, when it…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them…
— Desmond Tutu
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Some of the sweetest spirits are housed in frail frames. Great spiritual strength is often developed by those with physical challenges precisely because they are…
— Russell M. Nelson
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Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is.…
— Richie Benaud
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The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
— C.S. Lewis
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For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however…
— C.S. Lewis
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The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.
— Paul Davies
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Commit to paper precisely what you would like to have appear in your physical life. By seeing it and reading it repeatedly, you will plant…
— Wayne Dyer
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Our scars reveal who we are. The fact that we have experienced profound suffering in life—the fact that we carry what may seem to be…
— Jonathan Martin
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Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the…
— Lesley Hazleton
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Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consistently. This is…
— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his…
— Wendell Berry
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It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just…
— Susan Sontag
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There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can…
— Albert Einstein
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Sure, I do wish I sometimes got to play more heroes, but hey, I can't beat the fact that I am working constantly. Anyway, look…
— Brian Thompson
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We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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[Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take,…
— Jeremy Paxman
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Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem…
— Konrad Zuse
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You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can…
— John von Neumann
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But how can we love someone if we don't like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don't always have tender, comfortable…
— Peter Kreeft
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