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Quotes About Exact

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
~ Edward Hopper
I would not dare Console you if I could. What can be said, Except that suffering is exact, but where Desire takes charge, readings will grow erratic?
~ Philip Larkin
Oh, yes, let's bless the imagination. It gives us the myths we live by. Let's bless the visionary power of the human— the only animal that's got it—, bless the exact image of your father dead and mine dead, bless the images that stalk the corners of our sight and will not let go.
~ Philip Levine
body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians. By which the reader may conceive an idea of the ingenuity of that people, as well as the prudent and exact economy of so great a prince.,
~ Jonathan Swift
All my ghosts had vanished; the retribution that they sought had been exacted. I had nothing more to give, and nothing to fear.
~ Abraham Verghese
Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.
~ Adam Levin
It was really important that 'Dream' kept the balance of strength and total vulnerability - which was my exact headspace when it was being written.
~ Bishop Briggs
If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We want the Exact and the Vast; we want our Dreams, and our Mathematics.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, anyway, that's it, we just ran out of time cause I have to be done at 5.40 right now, and it is exactly 5.40.
~ James Rolfe
He has the exact Crawford colouring.' 'Egg mimicry,' said Lymond.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
He suddenly shivered: he experienced a momentary sensation that he didn't understand because no one on Earth had ever experienced it before. In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. This signal simply communicates an exact and almost pathetic sense of how far that being is from the place of his birth. On Earth it is never possible to be farther than sixteen thousand miles from your birthplace
~ Douglas Adams
meant he must have left it in his room. Exactly as Wellstone hoped. A few more people joined the entourage; they milled around outside
~ Douglas Preston
One thing I've learned about grief: it's like a creditor's bill. You can put off paying, but it eventually falls due, and exacts usurious interest.
~ Rachel Hartman
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
~ Ralph Steadman
Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain, I think. If it didn't matter, it wouldn't matter.
~ Julian Barnes
I not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.
~ Harry Belafonte
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
~ Denis Diderot
We will also require that follow-up reviews take place on a regular basis determined by the sensitive nature of the security involved. The review will be very much exact and recommended by experts.
~ Donald Trump
The real subject of On Being Blue is language itself, which he sees as glorious to the exact degree that it is also inadequate, unable to sustain an immediate relation between a word on the one hand and its arbitrary and yet indissoluble referent on the other. All words are figurative; no blue is ever just blue.
~ William H. Gass
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
~ William Law
The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.
~ Theodore Dreiser
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
~ Samuel Butler
The reason Scripture doesn't give clear guidelines for assigning responsibility is that it is not essential for us to know precise causes. This is good news: you don't have to know the exact cause of suffering in order to find hope and comfort.
~ Edward T. Welch