Precision Quotes

194 quotes by 179 authors

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty — John Ruskin
To plot is to live. [â€¦] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise… — Don DeLillo
My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the way. Dinner is… — Gregory Galloway
When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning… — Peter Matthiessen
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of… — Jamaica Kincaid
For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches â€” and I recall that at first photographic implements were related… — Roland Barthes
I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging… — Audrey Niffenegger
The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel… — Joseph Heller
a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination;… — E E Cummings
He cut her off with brutal precision. "And one last thing." His eyes flicked toward the door, through which Jace, Alec, and Isabelle had disappeared.… — Cassandra Clare
Yet, it had been Dimitriâ€™s gentleness and thoughtfulness mixed with that deadliness that made him so wonderful. The same hands that wielded stakes with such… — Richelle Mead
Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not… — Richard Preston
That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream "Daddy Issues. — Richard Kadrey
... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is. — Josephine Winslow Johnson
Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; — Jennifer Egan
The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. — Jennifer Egan
I listen to the things people want out of love these days and they blow my mind. I go to the pub with the boys… — Tana French
Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of… — Lois Lowry
He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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