Precise Quote by James Dickey Download Open image “To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.” — James Dickey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Precise Reckless
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am." — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“and their judgment was based more upon blind wishing than upon any sound prediction; for it is a habit of mankind to entrust to… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise… — Ralph Alfred Habas Copy Share Image
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord. — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
“Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
“Hope is 'that virtue by which we take responsibility for the future.' Not just responsibility for our individual futures but also for that of… — Lyanda Lynn Haupt Copy Share Image
I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.... — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“If I were going to tell one of my sons how to possess the world, I would simply bring him into my house, show… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen.… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
We need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this… — Alvaro Siza Vieira Copy Share Image
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
