Quotes About Precisely

But then again, many of life's little miracles are meant to happen precisely when they do, no sooner, no later.

don't know how many minutes I stood there. It was precisely the comfort she seemed to need this night. If only she had known to ask, or I to give, we could've done away with the blindfold Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Thank God for the blindfold. She

extremely complicated. But they are recorded in our genes. The aim of this book is to anatomize and lay out precisely what our DNA can and can't tell us about the concept of race.

And we say, 'Down with the privileges of education, as well as those of birth!' We are anarchists precisely because these privileges revolt us. They revolt us already in this authoritarian society. Could we endure them in a society that began by proclaiming equality?

Let's hope it doesn't come to that," Ian put in. "Just fridge yourselves, as Jonah says." "Dude," Dan said. "Do you mean chill?" "Precisely. Just what I said.

Précisément! The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.

To put it more precisely, I used the fact that I could not contact them as an excuse to extricate myself from this painful illegal political movement. It was not a case of the leftist movement's fever dying down; it was a case of my own leftist fever not having been a very serious one.

We cannot, to use the jargon, find "the neural correlates of consciousness" (NCC): more precisely, identify an adequate basis for the difference between neural activity that is, and neural activity that isn't, associated with consciousness.

Are you at work? I asked. Not precisely, but that's a good suggestion....

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

Precisely," Meredith smiled. "If they want to know where they are they'll follow the time of the Royal Observatory. We shall call it Greenwich time," he added.

Clever, clever cat. He knew precisely what to say. And how to touch, she acknowledged, as his fingers moved from her ass to trace the curve of her waist. "My need for dominance doesn't bother you?" she pressed, knowing his answer was important. Her cat would never be happy in a subservient role. "Let's say I'm willing to compromise," he said, the rasp of his breath filling the air. "I don't always have to be on top.

Fritz was standing there, four feet back from the door to the office, which was standing open, staring wide-eyed at me. When he saw I was looking at him he beckoned me to come, and the thought popped into my mind that, with guests present and Wolfe making an oration, that was precisely how Fritz would act if the house was on fire.

the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.

Some craven scrupleOf thinking too precisely on the event.

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was.

I'm there to tailor something very precisely and something very subtly to dialogue and the actor's energy. I'm there to bring out something that isn't spoken. 'King's Speech' is the perfect film to do it.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing.

I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.

My mother feared for my soul, a phrase that sounds to me now comically overblown, yet I remember that those were precisely the words she used.