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Quotes About Exact

Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity, and earning of it.
~ Idries Shah
In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
~ Sam Shepard
sterile." "Or they were very careful, and
~ Nora Roberts
He made that exact point to Kennedy, but she remained obstinate on the matter. She wouldn't go into
~ Vince Flynn
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
~ Author Unknown
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
~ Gustave Flaubert
It is clear, then," he says, "that witnesses even in number may give circumstantial relations which are completely erroneous, but whose result is that, if their descriptions are accepted as exact, the phenomena they describe are inexplicable by trickery.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
~ Franz Grillparzer
The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the understanding of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine I have written my work not as an essay with which to win the applause of the moment but as a possession for all time.
~ Thucydides
Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.
~ Orson Scott Card
He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.
~ Orson Scott Card
My heart spasmed a little, because of how significant the moment felt—it felt like a threshold between my youth and adulthood, or the exact instant of love coming into existence.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
I am exact and merciless but I love you.
~ Walt Whitman
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
was born to be an investigator. For me it was like putting together a three-dimensional, naturalistic puzzle that in the end would be an exact representation of the real world. From the deep bottom
~ Walter Mosley
I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!
~ Charles M. Schulz
In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.
~ le carre john iii
One of my first fashion clients was Calvin Klein. We did his first freestanding stores. He was very exact and precise. But talk about high-fashion people who brand themselves!
~ Peter Marino
From the Hills of Fairyland soft music came. Or, if we must be exact, Maud spoke.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Severe penalties were laid upon them for striking their husbands, wives were not allowed to go out in public unveiled, and strict fidelity was exacted of them—though their husbands might have all the concubines they could afford.
~ Will Durant
We should get to work immediately on recreating the exact pharmacological launchpad we used that day at Reiden Lake.
~ Christa Faust
As his father saw it, he did not want to learn what was taught. But in fact, he could not learn it. He could not, because there were demands in his soul that were more exacting for him than those imposed by his father and the pedagogue. These demands were conflicting, and he fought openly with his educators.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.
~ Stephen Wolfram
My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
~ Stephen Hawking