Quotes About Precisely

If there was any truth to the legend of the Nine Daughters of Russaka, Petunia thought suddenly, this is precisely what one of them would look like now.

A gun would be too violent. A noose would be too ancient. And a knife blade to the wrist would be too silent. So, the question became, How could a once-glorious life be ended swiftly and precisely, with minimum mess yet maximum impact?

The more deeply we probe the fundamentals of physical behaviour, the more that it is very precisely controlled by mathematics.

in a gray suit so precisely the same color as the fog that he seems (as in a not particularly scary movie) to be a ghostly floating head.

Or more precisely, is there anything I can do for you, ma'am? (Waiter) 'How about a bag for my head, or a stick to beat Lanie with?' (Grace)

The only justification for the application of NLP patterns is the creation of choice and precisely in the context in which choice presently does not exist.

three o'clock Phineas was acknowledged to be

It is precisely the minor differences in people who are otherwise alike that form the basis of feelings of strangeness and hostility between them.

which we welcomed precisely because it happened to suit our convenience.

Only that if ever he meets you he will be quite green with jealousy, for you are precisely what he thinks he would like to be – even though you don't study the picturesque in your attire.' He looked thunderstruck for a moment, and ejaculated: 'A Byronic hero – ! Oh, my God! Why, you abominable –

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

Top-down tends to be good practice when three preconditions are true: (a) you can specify in advance precisely what the program is to do, (b) the specification is unlikely to change significantly during implementation, and (c) you have a lot of freedom in choosing, at a low level, how the program is to get that job done.

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.

But what is it that happens precisely when we encounter someone we love? Do we encounter somebody, or is it animals that come to inhabit you, ideas that invade you, movements that move you, sounds that traverse you? And can these things be parted?

But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.

But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

It all made sense — terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely

And Dil was realizing that there are few things that so shake belief as seeing, clearly and precisely, the object of that belief. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed anymore.

There is a blissful period of existence which the Yen Buddhists* call plinki. It is defined quite precisely as that interval between waking up and being hit on the back of the head by all the problems that kept you awake the night before; it ends when you realize that this was the morning everything was going to look better in, and it doesn't.

The truth was that no one, not even Admirals Fletcher or Spruance, knew precisely how the battle was unfolding. It was too big, too spread out; too much was happening at once, and what little data could be pieced together may or may not be reliable. They were all feeling their way through the fog of war.

None the less, you have my leave, if only that you might ensure your spies are made aware of precisely when her spies make their report, so that they in turn may report to you and you may then report to me. Although what I am to do with such knowledge will no doubt escape me, given that the event initiating these flurries of reporting is none other than the one occurring right now in this room.

No doubt there's a tale there.' 'Indeed, but it's not relevant.' 'Meaning you don't know it.' 'Precisely.

It was, however, striking—in the best sense of the word—that precisely those rules that corresponded exactly to their overseers' economic interests enjoyed unconditional veneration, whereas rules for which said correspondence was less applicable were more likely to be winked at.