Precisely Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Precisely
Precisely Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Precisely quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
— Henry A. Kissinger
The punitive measures against murder underscore the gravity of the crime precisely because of the value of the victim.
— R.C. Sproul
The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached and against which he taught his disciples to fight. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
— Ingmar Bergman
A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.
— Robert Farrar Capon
These are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity.
— Patrick McGrath
For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.
— John Green
Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.
— G. Stanley Hall
I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.
— Emily Dickinson
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
for it is precisely the humanity, affability, and brotherly compassion of a doctor which prove the most efficacious remedies for his patients.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.
— Ramesh S Balsekar
Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.
— Werner Heisenberg
Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
— Louis Gustave Vapereau
Saigon was loved precisely because it was so unlovable - its squalor, its biblical, Job-like misfortune, its imminent, hoevering doom.
— Tatjana Soli
A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
— Otto Weininger
They say if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Well, those are precisely the people who need them!
— George Carlin
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
— Jean Giraudoux
The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.
— Georg Cantor
That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now ...
— Tim Ferriss
I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.
— Paullina Simons
To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.
— Arthur Cohn
Liturgies aim our love to different ends precisely by training our hearts through our bodies.
— James K.A. Smith
Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
— Charles Baudelaire
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
— John Naisbitt
Do your job precisely as if you were your own boss, and sooner or later you will be.
— Napoleon Hill
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.
— Christine Baranski
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
— Richard Dawkins
Welcomes seclusion. Not precisely antisocial, but reclusive.
— Chris Bohjalian
A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.
— Chris Bohjalian
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
— Jane Addams
Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion. They are composed like musicpg 52 — Milan Kundera
One of the deepest feminine desires in intimacy is precisely not to have to always figure it out for her man and guide him.
— David Deida
How nature made its most deadly creatures alluring precisely so they could lure their victims close.
— Vikki Wakefield
Our lives,our brokenness,our flaws and failures are precisely what God designed to reflect a perfect love.
— Peter Adejimi
A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.
— Thomas Jefferson
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.
— Richard Petty
Jesus did not come as a servant in spite of the fact that he is God; he came precisely because of the fact that he is God.
— John Ortberg
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.
— Guy Davenport
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
— Alan Lightman
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.
— Bill Maher
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.
— Fred Brooks
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.
— Peter Greenaway
Isn't it strange to see an event happening precisely because it was not supposed to happen?
— Anonymous
A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.
— Jean Liedloff
Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.
— Issey Miyake
In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)
— Victoria Moran
He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.
— Virginia Woolf
I don't like people talking bad about me, I get hurt so precisely I don't end up saying that for others.
— Katrina Kaif
The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful ...
— Henri Bergson
I'm trying to figure out precisely which character flaw might be responsible for my latest life failure.
— Koren Zailckas
Even in death, my mother smiled - and she had every reason to do so, for I had become precisely what she hoped I would - her mirror image.
— Peggy Toney Horton
Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.
— George M. Whitesides
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 the status quo.
— Joseph Campbell
Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
— Honore De Balzac
Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.
— Knut Hamsun
It is precisely our sins, and not our goodnesses, that most commend us to the grace of God.
— Robert Farrar Capon
For precisely when concepts fail one,Words are found at the right time. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
— Paul Valery
Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
— Vernon Howard
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
— John Maynard Keynes
There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.
— Sharon Salzberg
Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.
— Rob Sheffield
I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
— Frank Herbert
Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That's why we don't know so much about stupidity.
— Carl William Brown
Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful.
— M. Scott Peck
Dangerously well' - what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling 'too well
— Oliver Sacks
