Praecision Quotes & Sayings

America cut back on "welfare" from the 1970s onward. Family income support fell from 0.4 percent of GDP in 1970 to under 0.2 percent in 2010.16 Welfare still looms large in the public's imagination, but it plays little role in the budget and the deficit. It's been a long time since America was generous to its poor families with children! The — Jeffrey D. Sachs

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything — Robert Adams

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit. — Samuel R. Delany

Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place. — Graham Swift

Today
Today I am not in my skin. My body cannot contain me. I am spilling out and over, like a rogue wave on the shore. Today I can't keep myself from feeling like I don't have a friend in the world. And no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to pick myself up off the floor. My demons are lying in wait, they are grinning in the shadows, their polished fangs glinting, knowing today, it will be an easy kill. But tomorrow, tomorrow could be different, and that is what keeps me going today. — Lang Leav

Surrender activates the Law of Attraction — Annette Vaillancourt

I want to hold my life up alongside hers in order to, as she wrote, reach a point where i begin to see me-and her-in a more understandable light. — Diane Keaton

Tis impossible to judge with much Praecision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected. — John Adams

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything. — Bodhidharma

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after. — Mark Gatiss

When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe. — Lee Smolin

I just cannot have an offer on the table and just let it go. — Peter Bondra