Precisely Quotes
1050 quotes by 766 authors
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This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.
— George Galloway
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The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that…
— Peter Benchley
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If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore
— Chris Hillman
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He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon…
— Stefan Zweig
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.
— Michael Schumacher
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It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective…
— Martin Van Creveld
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I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is…
— John Ruskin
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Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths…
— Richard Dawkins
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Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you…
— Gore Verbinski
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A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of…
— Joseph Campbell
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The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'
— Hedi Slimane
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Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is…
— William Barrett
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If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world,…
— Fidel Castro
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of…
— Desmond Tutu
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When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it.
— Nathaniel Branden
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True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
— Paulo Freire
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