Preciseness 7 Quotes & Sayings

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles. — Barack Obama

I advise people to avoid workplaces that prevent Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) visits. — Steven Magee

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. — Amelia Barr

He will glory against the church, and say, 'These are your holy preachers: you see what their preciseness is, and whither it will bring them.' He will glory against Jesus Christ Himself, and say, 'These are thy champions! I can make thy chiefest servants to abuse thee; I can make the stewards of thy house unfaithful. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me. — Collette West

Not failure, but low aim is sin. — Benjamin E. Mays

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

It is the final sign of imbecility in a people that it calls cats dogs and describes the sun as the moon - and is very particular about the preciseness of these pseudonyms. To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence. The disease called aphasia, in which people begin by saying tea when they mean coffee, commonly ends in their silence. Silence of this stiff sort is the chief mark of the powerful parts of modern society. They all seem straining to keep things in rather than to let things out. — G.K. Chesterton

Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily — Deborah McKinlay

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time. — Tahereh Mafi

[L]anguage cannot match music's subtlety and preciseness of expression. — Jenefer Robinson

LADY ANNE:
Villain, thou know'st nor law of God nor man:
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER:
But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
LADY ANNE:
O wonderful, when devils tell the troth!
RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER:
More wonderful, when angels are so angry. — William Shakespeare

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically. — Maira Kalman